CALL IT SLEEP: This 1934 Henry Roth novel has been heralded as a modernist masterpiece, and it's true that the layered prose and bleak imagery recalls contemporary masters like James Joyce. The winding plot follows protagonist David Schearl, a young Jewish boy who lives with his immigrant parents on the Lower East Side; there, he contends with familial infidelity, religious oppression, abuse, poverty and rape. It's a dark read, certainly, but it's also a masterpiece, and an oft-overlooked one at that.