Immigrants

<p><strong style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>With sensitivity and wit Friedman creates a tableau of characters scenery sounds smells and tastes</strong><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)> </span><strong style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>as varied as those who have claimed or seek to claim a home within our borders.</strong></p><p><br></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>In this compelling collection of stories we find immigrants everywhere: in the poignant and doomed relationships between the documented and undocumented; in a squalid encampment by the Rio Grande where a young mother sends her daughter over the bridge to the U.S. alone; in the heart of multicultural New York where a Jewish woman seeks a loan from a Muslim bank manager to fund her cancer treatment; and in a New England home where bats in the attic are threatening the last vestiges of stability for a divorced and desperate middle-aged woman and her twenty-something Chinese American tenant.</span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>These stories explore the deep ambiguities in how we perceive each other. Readers will grow to love Friedman's characters despite their flaws as they grapple toward a deeper caring for the world around them.</span></p>