The climax occurs in Book IV, "The Rail," in which the narrator is accidentally electrocuted at the tramlines, an event that helps bring his parents Albert and Genya out of their funk.  
Possibly the first memory of this novel's narrator is his reunion with his father aboard the deck of the Peter Stuyvesant when he was a twenty-one-month old.  Its first book, "The Cellar," includes the narrator's encounter with upstairs neighbor Yussie.  The narrator is let in on a family secret after the arrival of his loud aunt Bertha, after which he becomes preoccupied with the story of the Prophet Isaiah.  The climax occurs in Book IV, "The Rail," in which the narrator is accidentally electrocuted at the tramlines, an event that helps bring his parents Albert and Genya out of their funk.  FTP, name this novel narrated by adolescent David Schearl, the masterwork of Henry Roth.
Possibly the first memory of this novel's narrator is his reunion with his father aboard the deck of the Peter Stuyvesant when he was a twenty-one-month old.  
Call it Sleep