The Time of Our Singing (Magill’s Survey of American Literature, Revised Edition)
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- Author: Richard Powers
- First Published: 2003
- Type of Work: Novel
- Genres: Long fiction
- Subjects: African Americans, Children, New York, United States or Americans, Blacks, Twentieth century, Europe or Europeans, Music or musicians, New York City, Interracial relationships, World War II, California, Jews or Jewish life, Washington, D.C., Singing or singers, Philadelphia, Holocaust, Jewish, Jews and Gentiles
- Locales: New York, NY, Philadelphia, PA, Washington, D.C., Oakland, CA, Brussels, Belgium
On the Easter Sunday of 1939 when David Strom, a German and a nonpracticing Jew who has fled from Nazi Germany, met Delia Daley, a gifted black gospel singer from Philadelphia, the two were drawn irresistibly to each other. Delia, a physician's daughter, and David, a physicist teaching at Columbia University, were well aware of the complications that their marriage would ignite both in Delia's family and in their own lives. Nevertheless, they married and had three children, one of whom, Joey Strom, is Powers's narrator. Each of the children, Joey, Jonah, and Ruth (nicknamed Rootie), is...
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