Yong 5/26: Golden Country by Jennifer Gilmore

Fathers and daughters. Mothers and sons. Grandparents, brothers, sisters. Husbands and wives. We see events of the last century unfold around the intertwined lives of three families. The nuances are specific: Jews, New York City. But the stories are universal: the immigrant experience, the American dream, life, death, dreams, harsh reality, but above all human relationships. And like real life, many of these relationships are not good. But some of them are. And if we have the strength and the self-awareness to allow ourselves to not have to learn everything the hard way...we can learn a lot for our own lives through the heartaches--and the joys--of the Brodskys, the Blooms, and the Verdoniks.

Coincidental aside: In the last couple books I've read, the title is also a recurring thematic term in two languages. Golden country appears multiple times alongside the Yiddish goldene medina. And white ghost girl with its Chinese (Cantonese?) gwaimui.