Before All the World

by Moriel Rothman-Zecher

Book Overview

An NPR Best Book of the Year

A mesmerizing, inventive story of three souls in 1930s Philadelphia seizing new life while haunted by the old.

I do not believe that all the world is darkness.

In the swirl of Philadelphia at the end of Prohibition, Leyb meets Charles. They are at a former speakeasy called Cricket's, a bar that welcomes, as Charles says in his secondhand Yiddish, feygeles. Leyb is startled;...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0374231664
• ISBN13: 9780374231668
• Release Date: October 2022
• Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 1.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 5.5" x 7.7"