A singularly talented writer makes his literary debut with this
provocative, soulful, and sometimes hilarious story of a failed
journalist asked to do the unthinkable: Forge Holocaust-restitution
claims for old Russian Jews in Brooklyn, New York.
Yevgeny Gelman, grandfather of Slava Gelman, "didn't suffer in
the exact way" he needs to have suffered to qualify for the
restitution the German government has been paying out to Holocaust
survivors. But suffer he has--as a Jew in the war; as a
second-class citizen in the USSR; as an immigrant to America. So?
Isn't his grandson a "writer"?
High-minded Slava wants to put all this immigrant scraping
behind him. Only the American Dream is not panning out for
him--Century, the legendary magazine where he works as a
researcher, wants nothing greater from him. Slava wants to be a
correct, blameless American--but he wants to be a lionized writer
even more.
Slava's turn as the Forger of South Brooklyn teaches him that
not every fact is the truth, and not every lie a falsehood. It
takes more than law-abiding to become an American; it takes the
same self-reinvention in which his people excel. Intoxicated and
unmoored by his inventions, Slava risks exposure. Cornered, he
commits an irrevocable act that finally grants him a sense of home
in America, but not before collecting a price from his family.
A Replacement Life is a dark, moving, and beautifully written
novel about family, honor, and justice.
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