Berlin--"East" and "West," day and of course night--throughout the 80s before the Wall came down.
Here, we live the Reagan years with her--when a city was divided, America the occupier, and the cigarettes not named "Salem" because it sounds t.
Most of all, Susan Neiman can write, as borne out again by her books to follow this debut.
And Jewish, which makes for moments at once awkward, poignant, resonant, unspoken, crass, funny, and always lurking.
In the eyes of an American philosophy student.
Berlin--"East" and "West," day and of course night--throughout the 80s before the Wall came down