SONGS FOR THE BUTCHERS DAUGHTER PB B FORMAT – PETER MANSEAU

Itsik Malpesh was born the son of a goose-plucking factory manager during the Russian pogroms – his life saved on the night it began by the young daughter of a kosher slaughterer. Or so he believes… Exiled during the war, Itsik eventually finds himself in New York, working as a typesetter and writing poetry to his muse, the butcher s daughter, whom he is sure he will never see again. But it is here in New York that Itsik is unexpectedly reunited with his greatest love – and, later, his greatest enemy – with results both serendipitous and tragic. His story is recounted in his memoirs thanks to the most unlikely of translators – a twenty-one-year-old Boston Catholic college student who, in meeting Itsik, has embarked upon a great lie that will define his future and the most extraordinary friendship he ll ever know.