Reading: A balm in Gilead
My mind is a jumble: more than one war, migration, building and preservation, what to make for dinner… Reading is a balm. The Postcard, by Anne Berest This autobiographical novel is the story of a family in France undone by the Holocaust. Our narrator Anne receives a postcard oddly inscribed with four names: Ephraïm, Emma,
(...)Books: Enemies, A Love Story
Some tales could only come to life — and make sense — in a particular time and place. In I.B. Singer’s “Enemies, A Love Story†Jewish refugee Herman Broder makes a home in Coney Island with his pregnant wife Yadwiga, who’s a Gentile. In the Bronx, he keeps his ravishing mistress, Masha, and her devout
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