SECOND GENERATION BOOKS   Writing a Jewish Life: Memoirs (Carroll & Graf, January 2006) In Writing a Jewish Life, Lev Raphael chronicles with unflinching honesty his struggles to claim both his religious and sexual identities, and the happiness he subsequently found. Read more about Writing a Jewish Life   Secret Anniversaries of the Heart: New and Selected Stories (Leapfrog Press, January 2006) In a collection that encompasses over twenty-five years of his award-winning stories, Lev Raphael proves himself a visionary like James Baldwin, and shares Anita Brookner's gift for dramatizing the pain of seemingly quiet lives in stories that are both passionate and precise. Read more about Secret Anniversaries of the Heart   The German Money (Leapfrog Press, 2003) Part mystery, part family saga, a new novel in which the problems of a contemporary Jewish family find their roots in the unspeakable secrets of holocaust survivors... Read more about The German Money   Journeys & Arrivals (Faber & Faber, 1996) "Lev Raphael has written essays about what it means to be Jewish and gay that put an equally heartfelt and astute emphasis on each element. These essays are as personal as confession and as reasoned as philosophy." --Edmund White Read more about Journeys & Arrivals   Winter Eyes (St. Martin's Press, 1992) The author of the Lambda Literary Award-winning Dancing on Tisha B'av now offers a haunting, remarkable novel about secrets, silence, and revelations -- a tale of the terror of the past that controls and divides an immigrant family, most notably from their American-born son... Read more about Winter Eyes   Dancing on Tisha B'Av (St. Martin's Press, 1990) Winner of the 1990 Lambda Literary Award. "His characters are voices of reason, observers rather than judges... The prose is poetic in its simplicity." --Los Angeles Times Read more about Dancing on Tisha B'Av   Criminal Kabbalah: An Intriguing Anthology of Jewish Mystery and Detective Fiction (Jewish Lights, 2001) A short story with a second-generation theme by Lev Raphael, "Your Papers, Please," is included in this anthology of Jewish mystery stories. LINKS Helen Epstein Web site of the author of the 1979 Children of the Holocaust, a book that helped put the Second Generation on the map.         More books by Lev