"Every time Marc Zimmerman publishes a new book, I celebrate. He is a wonderful writer." Luis Alberto Urrea, author of Into the Beautiful North and The Hummingbird's Daughter. Is it a memoir-like novel or a novel-like memoir? Both epic and personal, Zimmerman's new book tells how his divorced Jewish American protagonist, Mel, marries Lena, a brilliant Central American activist-intellectual and endangers his academic career. He and Lena participate...