Nora Glickman is a dramatist, fiction writer, and literary critic, who serves as a professor of Latin American and comparative literature at Queens College and the Graduate Center. Her specialties are Jewish literature and women’s studies in fiction and cinema.
How is Judith Summerfield’s account of the stories she heard from her father meaningful to us, since we each have a story to tell about our own life? In the twelve chapters of A Man Comes from Som…