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Book Review of Mazel

Mazel
Mazel
Author: Rebecca Goldstein
Genre: Literature & Fiction
Book Type: Paperback
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An enjoyable historical novel, mainly about Jews in pre-war Poland. Its strength was the evocation of an enticing, vanished world of the main protagonist--its weakness, a failure to fully realize Jewish life in the United States and the motivations of the characters of the protagonist's daughter and granddaughter. I also expected a lot from this writer, the author of The Mind-Body Problem, so I might be judging a good, solid, enjoyable novel for not being a perfect, excellent novel!