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One of The Washington Post's Top 10 Books of the Year

A New Yorker Essential Read

Long-listed for the 2024 Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction

“Melting Point is one of the most original, enjoyable, and profound books I’ve ever read. It is a great work of art.” —JONATHAN SAFRAN FOER

This dazzling, innovative family memoir tells the story of a long-lost plan to create a Jewish state in Texas.

On June 7, 1907, a ship packed with Russian Jews set sail for a promised land: not Jerusalem or New Yor...

Melting Point: Family, Memory, and the Search for a Promised Land