Helpful Score: 5
A National Book Award Finalist, like much literary fiction, there is a narrative distance between the reader and the happenings on the page. This distance makes it difficult to connect, empathize, or care about the characters and their lives.
Helpful Score: 5
Go inside the world of orthodox Jewish community members. Does their way of life allow for them to live and insure for their families their religious customs and beliefs, or does their way of life rob them of freedom to persue goals and dreams?
Helpful Score: 2
This is a story of family and trditions. Well written and joy to read.
Helpful Score: 1
I didn't get very far in this book. Nothing very interesting came along, so I decided I wouldn't waste any more reading time on something this boring.
Helpful Score: 1
Another book I could just not get my head around. I gave up pretty early.