"Many memories, many myths"this is how Wendy Doniger begins the story of her parents' origins in Europe and sharply bifurcated life in America. Recalling their contrasting attitudes toward Judaism and religion in generaland acknowledging the mythologized narratives that keep bubbling up in those recollectionsDoniger tells the story of their childhoods, their unusual marriage, their life in the postWorld War II Jewish enclave of Great Neck, New York, and her own complex relationship with each of them.