“a young jewish family comes to america from the old country...only to have one daughter break with family tradition and expectations to truly embrace the american dream of creating yourself to surprising and heartbreaking results. told from two perspectives simultaneously, that of the girl who becomes a woman who becomes a mother of a mother, and that of one of her 12 (count 'em...12!) children, the story is one that follows the rocky path of self-definition against a storm of social protest and aptly displays how the only opinion of oneself that really matters when the said storm is at it's peak...is one's own.
it is simply written and the style often nonexistent, the writer lacking panache, but no matter as the facts tell the tale.
worth a look.”
