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Het Blikken Paardje (2014)

by Janice Steinberg(Favorite Author)

3.69 of 5 Votes: 5

languge

English

genre

Historical Fiction

publisher

Ambo|Anthos

review 1: Now 80, Elaine Greenstein is moving into a retirement home. While going through her papers for the USC archive, she finds reminders of her twin sister who left home at 18, never to be heard from again. This is a story of her life, from childhood and adolescence in Boyle Heights to a successful career as a crusading human rights lawyer -- and the very different path that her sister took. I loved it.
review 2: I really enjoyed reading this book, yet I have so many criticisms. The story, told from the perspective of the younger of fraternal twin sisters is very readable and had a good deal of interesting back stories, i.e., the depression, World War II as it affects young high schoolers, immigrant Jews in California,family secrets and more. And yet, and yet, t... morehe characters are only two dimensional and the entire plot is contrived. ( Detective Phillip Marlow is an actual person in the story. (?)) It all hinges on a young doctoral student writing his thesis on this early feminist now that she is 85, who was a renowned attorney. Yet very little about her life as one or her career enters into the story. So this is a very weak hook on which to hang the entire book. Steinberg writes well and has done her research about the California town, now mostly Latino, then predominantly Jewish where the heroine grew up. The surprise ending is a gigantic ho-hum. So why did I finish it? less

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