Description: Compulsive, shattering, if not fundamentally disruptive, Returning emerges as one of the most important and searingly honest family sagas of our time.
Brief description: Nicholas Lemann is a professor and dean emeritus at the Columbia Journalism School. He is the author of The Promised Land, The Big Test, Redemption, and Transaction Man. A staff writer for The New Yorker since 1999, he lives in New York.
Review Quotes: New Yorker staff writer Lemann (High Admissions) offers a personal take on the history of Jews in America in this powerful family portrait . . . a stirring saga.-- "Publishers Weekly"