About the book: 2015 / In the stories and short stories of Jerome Charin, America appears before us during the Second World War, or more precisely, the life of the author’s native New York area - Bronx. There is a war, funerals come, guys return from the front, crushed by difficult experience, but life is in full swing. Black markets, gamblers, gangsters, election fraud - everything mixed up in the Bronx during the war. And against this background, in the memoir story “The Dark Lady from Belarus,” the adventures of the author, then Malysh Charin, and his irresistible mother, whom no man could resist, unfold…