Our reviewers look at recent fiction and non-fiction books, including two that consider very different mother-daughter relationships.
Total estrangement between family members holds a peculiar fascination for those of us fortunate enough not to have experienced it. You’ll have no trouble imagining how even love might cause such a rift after reading Hila Blum’s. It begins with Yoella, spying upon her daughter Leah having dinner in an Amsterdam suburb.
Villagers confront death as an inescapable reality: they’re bound together by the struggle to survive, the beauty of the landscape, intensity of religious feeling. This imagined Greek village is draped not in nostalgia but a vibrant earthiness, a dignity in the face of conditions that were anything but dignified.
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