Her First American
A Novel
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 Reveiw
She’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.
