The Street Sweeper

The Street Sweeper (2011) by Elliot Perlman. This is an ingenious book which blends themes of being black in America, being Jewish in America, and the Holocaust into one overall narrative which comes together near the end of the novel. One man fresh from prison, one professor without tenure, one Holocaust survivor, and one oncology doctor find their paths intertwining in unexpected ways until their separate stories become one story, and the reader is swept along. A great book. Grade: A-