My Name is Asher Lev

by Chaim Potok

My Name is Asher Lev: Genre 1 key example

Genre
Explanation and Analysis:

My Name is Asher Lev is a work of realistic fiction. The Ladover community of Hasidic Jews to which Asher and his family belong is based on a real Hasidic community in Brooklyn called the Chabad Lubavitch community. The book is a bildungsroman—a German word that describes a coming-of-age novel about a young person discovering themselves.