blueinkedfrost

This 1898 story on Project Gutenberg has great emotional intensity - tension between parents and children, gratitude, loyalty, ambition, nostalgia, change, reversal, alteration, despair. There's strong pathos in the character of the elderly father who makes a fortune in America, travels back to the old country, and tries to persuade his modern-minded daughter to marry the bridegroom he brings back. It's also about the history of Jewish immigrants in America toward the turn of the century, which the author is well-known for experiencing and writing about.

While the other stories in this book didn't work as well for me as the first, I'm really glad I found this one!