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Greenhorn: Episodes in an Immigrant's Life
Alex KriegerLoading ratings…
Greenhorn is a luminous memoir tracing Alex Krieger's journey from a displaced childhood, arriving in America at age nine as a child of Holocaust survivors, to a distinguished career as an architect, planner, and Harvard professor. With a poet's sensitivity and a craftsman's precision, Krieger reflects on the greenhorn's instinct to embrace the values of an adopted nation while remaining an eyewitness to its paradoxes. The result is a masterwork of memory and place that honors both allegiance to a new country and the origins that shaped him.
