About the Author
Zachary Lazar is the author of three previous books, including the novel Sway, chosen as a Best Book of 2008 by the Los Angeles Times, Rolling Stone, Publishers Weekly, and Newsday, and the memoir Evening’s Empire: The Story of My Father’s Murder, a Chicago Tribune Best Book of 2009. Lazar is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship and the Hodder Fellowship at Princeton University. He lives in New Orleans, where he is on the creative writing faculty at Tulane University.
also by ZACHARY LAZAR
Evening’s Empire
Sway
Aaron, Approximately
1. Israeli citizens are legally barred from entering major West Bank cities such as Bethlehem due to the security risk.
2. Lacey, Little Man: Meyer Lansky and the Gangster Life
3. Gosch, The Last Testament of Lucky Luciano
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Contents
Cover
Title Page
Welcome
Dedication
Chapter 1: Checking Out
Part One: Everywhere Present but Never Seen Chapter 2: Displaced Persons
Chapter 3: Only Connect
Chapter 4: Immigrants, Part 1
Chapter 5: Criminology
Chapter 6: Immigrants, Part 2
Part Two: In the Presence of My Enemies Chapter 7
Chapter 8
Chapter 9: Immigrants, Part 3
Chapter 10: Reunion
Part Three: World of Our Fathers Chapter 11
Part Four: Facts on the Ground Chapter 12: Ghosts
Part Five: Epilogue Chapter 13: The End
Acknowledgments
About the Author
Also by Zachary Lazar
Newsletters
Copyright
Copyright
The characters and events in this book are fictitious. Any similarity to real persons, living or dead, is coincidental and not intended by the author.
Copyright © 2014 by Zachary Lazar
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Portions of this book first appeared in Bomb, The Southampton Review, and Fence.
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