{"product_id":"a-bintel-brief-9780062291615","title":"A Bintel Brief","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn an illustrative style that is a thrilling mash-up of Art Spiegelman's deft emotionality, Roz Chast's hilarious neuroses, and the magical spirit of Marc Chagall, \u003cem\u003eA Bintel Brief\u003c\/em\u003e is Liana Finck’s evocative, elegiac love letter to the turn-of-the-century Jewish immigrants who transformed New York City and America itself.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA Bintel Brief \"A Bundle of Letters\"—was the enormously popular advice column of \u003cem\u003eThe Forward\u003c\/em\u003e, the widely read Yiddish language newspaper begun in 1906 New York. Written by a diverse community of Eastern European Jewish immigrants, these letters spoke to the daily heartbreaks and comedies of their new lives, capturing the hope, isolation, and confusion of assimilation.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDrawn from these letters—selected and adapted by Liana Finck and brought to life in her appealing two-color illustrations—\u003cem\u003eA Bintel Brief\u003c\/em\u003e is a tour of Lower East Side New York, and includes an imaginative conversation with the\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"HarperCollins Publishers Inc","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49524024443223,"sku":"9780062291615","price":16.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780062291615.jpg?v=1731855204","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/a-bintel-brief-9780062291615","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}