Almost before he knows it, Herman Broder, refugee and survivor of World
War II, has three wives: Yadwiga, the Polish peasant who hid him from
the Nazis; Masha, his beautiful and neurotic true love; and Tamara, his
first wife, miraculously returned from the dead. Astonished by each new
complication, and yet resigned to a life of evasion, Herman navigates a
crowded, Yiddish New York with a sense of perpetually impending doom.