What if, after a life of struggle, you found out you were about to inherit several million dollars? Run to the Mercedes dealer? Call your travel agent? Call Paine Webber? Mort Zachter did none of the above. Mort turned first into an investigator, trying to unlock the mystery of how his modest, bread-selling family amassed a secret fortune. And then Mort turned into a writer, putting down the tale in this delightful and elegant book. Read it. It will make you smile and see that sometimes good things happen to good people.

—Ari L. Goldman, author of Living a Year of Kaddish

Dough is rising! More than just a story about bread or money, it's a beautifully written family memoir—with an astonishing twist!—that brings to life a vanished Lower East Side and the people who walked its streets. Mort Zachter's keen eye and humor will keep you reading way past your bedtime.

—Hettie Jones, author of All Told

With a sense of detail as sharp as the perceptions of a quietly observing child and with the insight and compassion of an adult, Mort Zachter takes us back to the Manhattan of the sixties, where he gracefully and wittily examines the mysteries—and baffling complexities—of family, work, love and sacrifice.

—Elizabeth Frank, Pulitzer Prize winning author of Louise Bogan

—Los Angeles Times

This rich story pays off with honest but lighthearted discoveries about loyalty and wealth

—Publishers Weekly

[A] small, wry memoir . . . that is miraculously loving and nonjudgmental as it is cleareyed.

—Anne Mendelson, New York Times Book Review

Rich in spirit and detail, Dough is a sweet, wistful, and eloquent tale of faith, family and the real meaning of wealth.

—Debra Ginsberg, author of Waiting: The True Confessions of a Waitress

—Kirkus Reviews