“The
conflicts of history, the power of love.”
Noah Greenspan’s life changes forever the day Yusuf andAlexandra Salaman enroll at the public elementary school he attends in theAfrican American LeDroit Park neighborhood of Washington, DC. The beautiful daughter of Palestinian Christian Arabs who have purchased a competing corner grocery store in the same neighborhood as the Greenspans’ For You Market, Alexandra becomes more, much more, than merely Noah’s friend’s sister when, at his own Bar Mitzvah, Noah becomes smitten with her. The animosities, grudges, and tensions inculcated by culture, religion and politics emanating from the land of their ancestors are brought intosharp focus, as reality challenges friendship and love.
Harold Gershowitz is a retired businessman, lecturer, former adjunct college instructor, and award-winning author of Remember This Dream, a “Chicago Tribune” best-seller and winner of the 1989 “Friends of Literature Award for Fiction”. A prolific essayist, and strongly committed to community, Mr. Gershowitz is the recipient of an Honorary Doctorate Degree in Humane Letters from the Catholic Theological Union of North America and of the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Anti-Defamation League. Mr. Gershowitz has served on many public interest and community Boards including the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C., the Goodman Theater and the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago, Illinois, and the McCallum Center for the Performing Arts and the Barbara Sinatra Center for Abused Children in Palm Desert California.
conflicts of history, the power of love.”
Noah Greenspan’s life changes forever the day Yusuf andAlexandra Salaman enroll at the public elementary school he attends in theAfrican American LeDroit Park neighborhood of Washington, DC. The beautiful daughter of Palestinian Christian Arabs who have purchased a competing corner grocery store in the same neighborhood as the Greenspans’ For You Market, Alexandra becomes more, much more, than merely Noah’s friend’s sister when, at his own Bar Mitzvah, Noah becomes smitten with her. The animosities, grudges, and tensions inculcated by culture, religion and politics emanating from the land of their ancestors are brought intosharp focus, as reality challenges friendship and love.
Harold Gershowitz is a retired businessman, lecturer, former adjunct college instructor, and award-winning author of Remember This Dream, a “Chicago Tribune” best-seller and winner of the 1989 “Friends of Literature Award for Fiction”. A prolific essayist, and strongly committed to community, Mr. Gershowitz is the recipient of an Honorary Doctorate Degree in Humane Letters from the Catholic Theological Union of North America and of the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Anti-Defamation League. Mr. Gershowitz has served on many public interest and community Boards including the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C., the Goodman Theater and the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago, Illinois, and the McCallum Center for the Performing Arts and the Barbara Sinatra Center for Abused Children in Palm Desert California.
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