Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book.Sample Book Insights: #1 My parents were very different in temperament. My mother was the one who looked back, fretted, and viewed with alarm. My father lived for the future, and he always hoped for the best.#2 When my father and his family arrived in Concordia, they were greeted by two brothers, T and Erv Medlin, who told them they had never before seen a Jew who wasn’t a peddler. When my father explained that he was opening a store there, the brothers were confused.#3 The house of Brookie Simmons, the richest girl in Concordia, was a little different from the other two-story white frame houses in that it seemed wide rather than tall. It was perched on the roof of an attic that had ignored symmetry and simply shot itself off to one side.#4 The Simmonses’ house was dark and smelt musty. My mother thought the beds were very soft, but she was nervous about the bathrooms. She didn’t know how much they were being charged, and when she asked my father, he said he didn’t ask or know.