“Afamilyalbum:leather-bound,thin,itspagesyellowwithage.Thereareimagesoneverypage-blackandwhitetostartwith,thenKodacolor.“SobeginsNicholasDelbanco’snewnovel,ItIsEnough,achronicleoftheGerman-JewishHochmannfamily,whichisalsoachronicleofthetwentiethcenturyanditsrepercussionshereandnow.WhileFrederickHochmann,awidower,looksbackonhislonglifefromNewCanaan,Connecticut,thedramaofhisfamily’spastsurgestothesurface.RangingfromBerlintoBerkeley,fromthe1930stothe2010s,fromscenesofthegreatesttendernesstothegreatestcallowness,ItIsEnoughistheworkofoneofthemostaccomplishedAmericanprosestylistssinceHenryJames.
