Across
- 1. Food prepared according Jewish law.
- 3. Ruth's family was __________ Jewish.
- 4. Ruth's favorite city as a teen.
- 8. James' stepsister with whom he lived three summers.
- 9. Church in Harlem where Rev. Brown preached.
- 11. Disease Hudis Shilsky suffered.
- 12. Place in which James had his "street education".
- 13. Animals that symbolized Ruth throughout the novel and with which Hudis had an obsession with.
- 14. The most important thing in life, according to Ruth, besides religion.
- 16. The Yiddish translation of Rachel.
- 17. Movement many of the McBride joined as a way to find themselves.
- 19. Dennis McBride's first name.
- 20. Woman that helped James during his high school and college years.
- 23. James hits a boy whose father was part of this political organization.
- 24. Pimp with whom Ruth went out in several occasions.
Down
- 2. Apartments in Brooklyn in which the McBride lived.
- 4. Church Dennis and Ruth McBride founded.
- 5. Town in Virginia in which the Shilsky family settled in.
- 6. Ruth's job at the Hi Hat Barbershop.
- 7. City in Delaware to which Ruth and her family moved in 1974.
- 10. Ruth's country of origin.
- 15. Person who gave James many life lessons but was ultimately stabbed to death.
- 18. Name the people of Suffolk called Fishel Shilsky.
- 21. Moody Ruth McBride's best friend as a teenager.
- 22. "God is the color of __________".
