Return to Squirrel Hill: A Memoir: Growing up Howie

A touching and hilarious memoir about an Orthodox Jewish boy growing up in Pittsburgh in the mid-20th Century, returning as an adult to help his family.

This is a story of what love can do and what it cannot.

In flashbacks, boyhood friends build their world in spite of the feared non-Jewish world surrounding them. Family love carries the “mentally retarded” Uncle Izzy, who can turn any serious moment into side-splitting laughter. Brotherly love embraces best friend Harold, who loses his way i...