Marjorie Morningstar Author:Herman Wouk It is a fictional novel about a 15-yr old Jewish girl growing up in NY in the 1930's or so. No dust cover, but from a Book of the month club article, "It is a story of tremendous authenticity as well as pathos, which, because of the excellence of the writer's observation and the rare distillation of his experience, will lead many who read it i... more »nto a world whose manners and customs they have seen but never understood."« less