Silbert gives lost lives new voices as she describes in exacting, often witty detail the world of Eastern European Jews newly arrived in turn-of-the century America.
Granta magazine's 71st issue, "What We Think of America", was a prescient reflection of the USA's deepening political unpopularity among people outside its own borders. But what do Americans themselves think of their country's new imperialism - and of the world it rules?
