Get the Summary of Debby Applegate's Madam in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary and not the original book. Original book introduction: As Madam Polly, the proprietress of 'New York's most opulent bordello,' society came to me. Back in Manhattan, Polly and her girls finished their primping, and then curled up around the radio receiver in her parlor. Over the course of her childhood, her father would travel to the metropolises of Warsaw and Berlin and would return to New York City, making him, Pearl noted archly, "an authority on everything." But, the booming so petrified the Christian peasant girl who served as their maid-of-all-work that whenever she heard it, remembered Pearl, "she would throw her apron over her head and plunge blindly toward the nearest exit, caroming against chairs and tables and, more often than not, leaving the floor strewn with my little brothers, who had to learn early either to dive for safety or be bowled over." The young man who served as Moshe's apprentice in the tailoring business would cower till the bellowing subsided, then dash to the foot of the stairs to beg Moshe to repeat himself

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