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In addition to the title novella, set in New Jersey, Goodbye, Columbus contains the five short stories " The Conversion of the Jews ," " Defender of the Faith ," " Epstein ," " You Can't Tell a Man by the Song He Sings ," and " Eli, the Fanatic.

" Each story deals with the problems and concerns of second and third-generation assimilated American Jews as they leave the ethnic ghettos of their parents and grandparents and go on to college, the white-collar professions, and life in the suburbs.