Portraits A novel.

From New York's Lower East Side to San Francisco, four generations of an immigrant family in America come to life in this New York Times- bestselling saga. In an act of great courage and will, Esther Sandsonitsky leaves her abusive new husband and tiny village on the border between Poland and Germany for the more welcoming shores of the United States. When she makes her way through the throng at Ellis Island, the world is on the threshold of...