Sass

Reuben and Miriam Sassovitch emigrate from Romania to the promised land of the Bronx in the late 1970s. Crafting a new name and hearts brimming with hope, they enroll their only child, Elliott, in public school. Though a virtuoso in chemistry lab, his gifts do not extend to the classrooms, hallways, or streets.His neuroses only deepen with time, nearly costing him his life in New York's drug underworld. Worse, though, it poisons his bond with a blemished, but magical woman that he pursues across the world. For Elliott, life is one sharp-toothed puncture wound after another, until a flicker of light transforms him. It is a coming-of-age tale, but one that crawls at a snail's pace. It is also the saga of a love not destined to be that succeeds.