All the book-based movies and TV shows featuring Joanne Baron, ranked

Marcus Messner is fighting in the Korean War. In the summer of 1951, before his first year of college, Marcus’s synagogue in Newark, New Jersey mourns the death in Korea of one of his classmates. His father, who runs a kosher butcher shop, is unnerved by the deaths in the war of boys like his son and becomes overwhelmed with paranoia.

Roger is a downtrodden meter reader, subject to ridicule from co-workers and regular denizens, who dreams of dating the foreign graduate student who lives in his building, Amanda. To overcome his lack of self-esteem, he signs up for a course taught by Dr. P where Roger and his classmates are constantly bullied by Dr. P and his assistant Lesher.

Georgie is perplexed by life. She fears losing her husband because she loves him so deeply, but her incessant demands are straining their marriage to the breaking point. Where can she go for assistance? Of course, there are the domestic women: Honora, Georgie’s mother; Clare, her sister; and, on her better days, even Grandma. But until a different kind of man enters her life, nothing in her chaotic life makes sense.