Jonathan Lethem (Get this book)Lethem extends his stylistically diverse, loosely aligned, deeply inquiring saga of New York City with a richly saturated, multi-generational novel about a fractured family of dissidents headquartered in Queens. It's 1955, and witty, voluble, passionate Rose Zimmeran Eastern European Jew, worshipper of Abraham Lincoln, and street-patrolling leftisthas outraged her communist comrades by having an affair with Douglas Lookins, an African American policeman. A righteous, stupendously involving novel about the personal toll of failed political movements and the perplexing obstacles to doing good--Booklist
