A Surfeit of Similes Music and a fierce compassion comes

and a fierce compassion comes "a masterpiece" (Newsweek) that illuminates the subterranean conflicts between parents and children and friends and neighbors in the American Jewish diaspora

carefully crafted

via a visitor's attempt to understand and interpret that city's irreducible strangeness

" Codjoe writes in the masterful titular poem

A Surfeit of Similes Music and a fierce compassion comesTitle: A Surfeit of Similes Author: illustrated by David Small Norton Juster Publisher: William Morrow & Company, Inc., New York Published: 1989 Binding: Hardcover Language: English Catalogs: Children's Picture Books, Juvenile, Humor Description: Ex library. Signed and inscribed by the author: "For Jane Percival's Students." Original slate blue paper boards with black cloth spine and copper colored text on spine. Illustrated dust jacket in good