From Baghdad to Brooklyn: Growing Up in a Jewish-Arabic Family in Midcentury America

“[Marshall] understands that the neighborhoods and cities that no longer exist can be conjured by memory and reanimated by art.”—San Francisco Chronicle

“Born in Brooklyn of Arabic/Jewish heritage, Marshall may represent the keynote, most critical multicultural mixture of our time.”—Naomi Shihab Nye, Hungry Mind Review

Inspired by the posthumous discovery of letters written by his father but never mailed, Jack Marshall’s memoir is both a moving story of a writer’s ar…