The Statement

In 1968, shortly after Martin Luther King's assassination, fifteen-year-old Lester Gold is sweeping the sawdust from the wooden floors of Gold's Kosher Cuts when he hears a shot. He runs from the back of the store, stumbles and hits his head, breaking his glasses. His father, Julius Menachem Gold, lies dying, and the killer is gone. Lester gets a brief glimpse of what becomes the sole clue: the killer is wearing an Orioles cap. Lester's mother, Minnie, whose parents survived the Holocaust, ...