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Michael Haddad, the teenage son of Palestinian immigrants, comes of
age during the tumultuous sixties in his family’s neighborhood
grocery store in New York City. In 1967 Michael maneuvers through
the working-class neighborhood delivering groceries and enters the
homes and lives of his customers. He’s confronted by the violence
of racist bullies and falls for the radical college coed who
teaches him about sex, love, and protest. Michael grieves with the
mother whose only son died in the Vietnam War and is embraced by
the first black couple who move into the neighborhood. They all
shape him, and through the conflict of hate, acts of kindness, and
his sexual awakening, Michael struggles to figure out who this
dutiful son of an immigrant family is. Michael’s life is buffeted
by the killing of Martin Luther King, Jr, and the death, two months
later, of Bobby Kennedy. His girlfriend opens his eyes to the
ongoing struggle to test national ideals against the growing
diversity of America. But when Michael experiences a sudden
personal tragedy, he must learn to get past his fears, come to
terms with his heritage, and set himself free.
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