Listen to free audiobook with a 30 day free trial :https://esound.space/audibleTitle: Up from Orchard StreetAuthor: Eleanor WidmerNarrator: Lorna RaverFormat: UnabridgedLength: 15 hrs and 48 minsLanguage: EnglishRelease date: 09-27-05Publisher: Blackstone Audio, Inc.Genres: Fiction, HistoricalSummary:Three generations of Roths live together in a crowded tenement flat. Long-widowed Manya is the family's head and its heart. She's renowned throughout the neighborhood for her cooking, and every noontime the front room of the flat turns into Manya's private restaurant. But Manya is no soft touch, except, perhaps, where her granddaughter Elka is concerned. Precocious Elka is her closest companion and confidante. Through Elka's eyes we come to know the fascinating characters who move in and out of the Roths' lives. Money may have been short, but opinions were not, and their tart tongues and lively humor abound. In this riveting story lies the heart of the American immigrant experience: a novel at once wise, funny, poignant, anguishing, exultant, and bursting with love.©2005 Eleanor Widmer; (P)2005 Blackstone AudiobooksContact: [email protected]

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