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In 1916, on the immigrant blocks of the Southern port city of Mobile, Alabama, a Romanian Jewish shopkeeper, Morris Kleinman, is sweeping his walk in preparation for the Confederate veterans parade about to pass by. "Daddy," his boy asks, "are we Rebels?" "Today?" muses Morris. "Yes, we could Rebels." Thus starts a novel set, like many, in a languid Southern town. But, in a rarity for Southern novels, this one centers around a character who mixes Yiddish along with his Southern and has for his friends and neighbors small vendors from Poland, Lebanon, and Greece.At converts lyrical, comic, and melancholy, the story takes ideas from its name. This Romanian appearance with an Alabama twist is symbolic of the strivings of common individuals for the realization with their hopes and dreams. Arranged largely over a few humble blocks yet participating many parts of the earth, this Southern Jewish book is, inevitably, richly American.
