Bøker av Roy Hoffman

Roy Hoffman's Almost Family explores the relationship that begins when one person goes to work for another, and their friendship - across lines of race, income, and religion - develops degrees of understanding yet growing misunderstanding. This edition commemorates the 35th anniversary of the book's publication.

Set along the Mississippi Gulf Coast, the stories of three women and the men they love come together in this novel of war and hurricanes, loss and renewal. Christiane, or Nana, reliving the past in her eighties, her granddaughter Angela, working at a Biloxi casino in her twenties, and their teenage friend Cam, the daughter of a Vietnamese shrimper, form a deep connection.

Offers a collection of portraits of many remarkable Alabamians, famous and obscure, profiled by award-winning journalist and novelist Roy Hoffman. These profiles preserve the individual stories - and the individual voices within the stories - that help to define one of the most distinctive states in the union.

Like a photo album, this work presents close-up portraits of everyday places and ordinary people. It records local people telling their own tales of race relations, sports, agriculture, and Mardi Gras celebrations. It features a diverse population of fishermen, baseball players, bakers, authors, political figures, among others.

The complex friendship between a black housekeeper and her Jewish employer is the focus of Hoffman's novel about life in the civil rights era South. It explores friendship across lines of income, race and religion.

In 1916, on the immigrant blocks of the Alabama, a Romanian Jewish shopkeeper, Morris Kleinman, is sweeping his walk in preparation for the Confederate veterans parade about to pass by. This book centers on a character who mixes Yiddish with his southern and has for his neighbors small merchants from Poland, Lebanon, and Greece.