As Close to Us as Breathing: A Novel
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| Rating | : | 4.98 (854 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0316384143 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 368 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-02-20 |
| Language | : | English |
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An Best Book of March 2016: Reviewers of this wonderful, moving novel will surely compare it to the works of Allegra Goodman, whose Kaaterskill Falls, in particular, introduced many readers to the world of ultra-observant Jewish families, their traditions and their guarded relationship with the secular, non- Jewish society. Occasionally, readers may be confused about exactly what is happening when--Molly is narrating as a modern adult, the story goes back and forth over several decades-- but that’s a minor quibble in a novel this layered and deep. Set on a strip of Connecticut beach that welcomed Jews at a time when most did not--it was affectionately known as Bagel Beach--Davy’s mother and her two adult sisters share a cottage with their children for the summer. --Sara Nelson. (The men, involved in a family business in New Haven, only come on weekends.) And what wonderful, proud, competitive, loving and dem
Tragic and Inciteful Lucy This book is brilliantly written. The author has an uncanny ability to communicate the depth, complexity and confusion of human feeling and emotion. I love historical fiction and the setting in a Jewish community in post WWII Connecticut was an important contextual element to the story . Family Tragedy This is a multi-generational novel about a Jewish family and a how a tragedy affects all of their lives through the years. The novel begins in 19Family Tragedy Susan R This is a multi-generational novel about a Jewish family and a how a tragedy affects all of their lives through the years. The novel begins in 1948 as the women and children of the family go to their cottage at the beach in Connecticut for the summer - their husbands only come up on wee. 8 as the women and children of the family go to their cottage at the beach in Connecticut for the summer - their husbands only come up on wee. Brillent Judith R. Henning This book starts off with many characters that are all introduced in a few pages. I had to try very hard to get the three sisters, their husbands, children and friends straight. I have read books that take place over many years and usually they are contained in chapters, going back and
Vivie, once terribly wronged by her sister, is now the family diplomat and an increasingly inventive chef. Can Molly, decades after the event, draw from her aunt Bec's hard-won wisdom and free herself from the burden that destroyed so many others?Elizabeth Poliner is a masterful storyteller, a brilliant observer of human nature, and in As Close to Us as Breathing she has created an unforgettable meditation on grief, guilt, and the boundaries of identity and love.. Ada, the family beauty, relaxes and grows more playful, unimpeded by her rule-driven, religious husband. Jones).In 1948, a small stretch of the Woodmont, Connecticut shoreline, affectionately named "Bagel Beach," has long been a summer destination for Jewish families. Unmarried Bec finds herself forced to choose between the family-centric life she's always known and a passion-filled life with the married man with whom she's had a secret years-long affair.But when a terrible accident occurs on the sisters' watch, a su
Elizabeth Poliner is the author of Mutual Life & Casualty, a novel-in-stories, and the forthcoming collection of poems, What You Know in Your Hands. Her stories and poems have appeared in The Kenyon Review, Colorado Review, The Southern Review, Prairie Schooner, and many other journals. She teaches creative writing at Hollins University. Commission on the Arts and Humanities, she has also been awarded fiction scholarships t