Books by Myra Alperson

How many times do you celebrate the New Year at home? Just once? If your family is Jewish, Chinese, and a few other things besides, you might celebrate twice or even three times a year! As the rate of cross cultural adoption grows in the United States, new traditions are emerging. These are part of a new multiculturalism that, with its attendant joys and challenges, has become a fact of life in urban, suburban, and even rural America. Myra Alperson's sourcebook offers families the first complete guide to the tangled questions that surround this important phenomenon. As the adoptive Jewish mother of Sadie, her Chineseborn daughter, Alperson is able to offer personal as well as professional insight into such topics as combining cultures, confronting prejudice, and developing role models. Focusing on adoptive families, she provides provides guidelines on how families can prepare for their exciting journey toward becoming multicultural.

Surveys the New York City restaurants and stores with the authentic food of groups such as Jews, Italians, Hispanics, Afro-Americans, Russians, and West Indians.

The process of foreign adoption can seem complex, frustrating, and endless. This step-by-step guide provides the necessary hard facts and information adoptive parents need, as well as support through the experiences of others who have adopted foreign children.

A food lover's odyssey through the finest ethnic food spots throughout the boroughs of New York City encompasses African, Caribbean, Italian, East Asian, and many other international culinary specialties as it details seventeen neighborhood tours, twenty-three tasty side trips, a host of popular in-spots and little-known sites, cultural and historical sidebars, maps, and directions.