This book has been favorably reviewed by many, including Cannonballer Jen K, so I bought it on my recent trip to Bangkok, where they have an expansive Kinokuniya. I was intrigued by the idea of a golem — have always been intrigued by them since it was first mentioned in Michael Chabon’s Kavalier and Clay as a character in a graphic novel by the protagonist Josef Kavalier — but this was the first time I’ve thought of them as a Jewish equivalent to a djinni, […]
Are We All Defined by Our Inner 15-year-old?
Meg Wolitzer’s novel spans many decades—telling the story of a group of friends who meet at an “arty” summer camp in upstate New York in the early seventies but whose lives remain entangled with each other’s into the new millennium. Most of the novel is told from the perspective of Jules Jacobson, who comes to the camp as Julie but after getting invited into a circle of already established friends, turns into Jules and embraces a life in the arts. The group consists of the […]
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