Neugeboren's second novel is the story of Harry Meyers—New York schoolteacher, alienated Jew, aging widower resigned to lonely retirement—and of what happens to him when his uneasy peace is shattered by violence.
It is a taut, powerful story, quick with suspense, and original in approach. Neugeboren captures the brutality, the comic madness, the very texture of existence seething with the West Side's rooming-house ghetto.