Her First American

A classic novel of the immigrant experience“Lore Segal may have come closer than anyone to writing the Great American Novel.” —The New York Times Book ReviewShe’s Ilka Weissnix a young Jewish refugee from Hitler’s Europe newly arrived in the United States. He’s Carter Bayoux her first American: a middle-aged hard-drinking Black intellectual. Lore Segal’s brilliant novel is the story of their love affair—one of the funniest and saddest in modern fiction.