Genesis: Seeds of Being in the Early Years of a New Jersey Jewish-American

"Every time Marc Zimmerman publishes a new book, I celebrate. He is a wonderful writer ... [who] doesn't disappoint." Luis Alberto Urrea, author of The Hummingbird's Daughter.


The portrait of a would-be artist as a young middle-class Ashkenazi Jewish American living in the Newark/Elizabeth shadows of New York—his first memories, his summer and school days, his family, friends, and early loves, along with the impact of Holocaust, Cold War, and McCarthyism, the Rosenberg Case, and the founding...