# Call it Sleep

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- Book: [Call it Sleep](https://www.bookquiver.com/henry-roth/call-it-sleep) ([Call it Sleep.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/henry-roth/call-it-sleep.md))
- Authors: [Henry Roth](https://www.bookquiver.com/henry-roth)
- Publisher: Penguin Classics
- ISBN: 978-01-4118-865-2
- Pages: 464
- Published: 2006-10-05
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

David Schearl arrives in New York in his mother's arms to begin his new life as an immigrant in the 'Golden Land'. David is hated by his father - an angry, violent man unable to find his niche in the New World - but is fiercely loved and protected by his Yiddish-speaking mother. An innovative, multi-lingual novel, Call It Sleep subtly interweaves the overwhelming love between a mother and son with the terrors and anxieties David experiences, as he seeks to find his own identity amidst the cultural disarray of early twentieth-century America.