Melting Point: Family, Memory, and the Search for a Promised Land Tony Keith Jr. as time usually is

as time usually is

and a house in the New Jersey suburbs

Adam is approaching his seventieth birthday

The Pecan Children captures both the magic and despair of trying to hold onto home when the world is determined to take it away from you

As their dangerous situation escalates

Melting Point: Family, Memory, and the Search for a Promised Land Tony Keith Jr. as time usually isLonglisted for the 2024 Baillie Gifford Prize for Non Fiction A New York Times Most Anticipated Book "Fabulous . . . One gets a thrilling sense of history unfolding in real time." Matthew Reisz, The Guardian This dazzling, innovative family memoir tells the story of a long lost plan to create a Jewish state in Texas. On June 7, 1907, a ship packed with Russian Jews sets sail not to Jerusalem or New York, as many on board have dreamed, but to Texas.