The Assistant
main characters
Morris Bober, Frank Alpine, Helen Bober
Rip's impressions
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first line
The early November street was dark though night had ended, but the wind, to the grocer's surprise, already clawed. It flung his apron into his face as he bent for the two milk cases at the curb. Morris Bober dragged the heavy boxes to the door, panting. A large brown bag of hard rolls stood in the doorway along with the sour-faced, gray-haired Poilisheh huddled there, who wanted one.
last lines
(spoiler alert)
After Passover he became a Jew.
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