Yekl by Abraham Cahan. It's an 89-page novel. It's available online for free. Read it.
It's about the struggles of the Jewish immigrant right before the turn of the century (we're talkin' 1800s to 1900s, here). I'm writing an essay, as we speak, about how it suggests that immigrants feel pressured to drop their past identities in favor of new American ones.
Just thought I'd share.
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