Like Isaac Bashevis Singer's fiction, this poignant memoir of his
childhood in the household and rabbinical court of his father is full of
spirits and demons, washerwomen and rabbis, beggars and rich men. This
rememberance of Singer's pious father, his rational yet adoring mother,
and the never-ending parade of humanity that marched through their home
is a portrait of a magnificent writer's childhood self and of the world,
now gone, that formed him.