Across
- 1. Ruth's best and only friend in high school
- 4. The eastern European country where Ruth is from
- 5. A day of rest and worship
- 7. African American revolutionary group that James fears
- 10. The city Ruth describes as "magic"
- 11. several groups of musicians and poets from the late 1960s civil rights movements
- 16. The projects that Ruth loves and frequently visits
- 17. The war that Sam loses his life fighting in
- 19. The disease that cripples Mameh
- 21. The church Dennis and Ruth start
- 23. The place where James meets interesting characters and ultimately decides to turn his life around
- 25. The restaurant in the former location of Shilsky's store
Down
- 2. The Jewish place of worship
- 3. The state where Dennis is from
- 6. The son of a Holocaust survivor whose wedding James convinces Ruth to attend
- 8. The Southern city Ruth's family lives in in America
- 9. Ruth's second husband and the man James knows as Daddy
- 10. James' sister that runs away
- 12. The college that James attends
- 13. Week long period of mourning in Judaism for first degree relatives
- 14. What all twelve of Ruth's children achieve
- 15. The man James looks up to while visiting summers in Louisville Kentucky
- 18. The man that offers Ruth a job as a manicurist
- 19. Ruth's highschool boyfriend
- 20. Food that satisfies requirements of Jewish law
- 22. The animal that Mameh loves
- 24. The genre of music James gets heavily involved with in Delaware
