Books and Cooks April 1999

Mazel

Our rating: 3.43 cups of tea!

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Discussion date: Sunday, April 11, 1999, 7:30PM

Discussion place: Vicki's place.

Menu: Dessert!

Amazon says:
Winner of the National Jewish Book Award, Mazel tells a richly romantic story about luck and love in the lives of three generations of Jewish women: Sasha, a rabbi's daughter who leaves the shtetl to become the star of the Yiddish stage; Chloe, a freethinker of the 1960s; and Phoebe, a mathematician of the '90s whose choices surprise and baffle her grandmother, Sasha.

The New York Times Book Review says:
Rebecca Goldstein’s fictional heroines -- philosophers, mathematicians, writers -- are brainy, intellectual women who get all the best lines. Her novels are wickedly funny and peppered with smart dialogue ("The Mind-Body Problem," 1983) or brilliantly conceived as literary labyrinths ("The Dark Sister," 1991). Her stories ("Strange Attractors," 1993) are freewheeling exercises in voice.

The Bookery says:
The compelling story of three generations of Jewish women. Of the Polish actress Sasha and her sister Fraydel, the storyteller. Of her daughter Chloe's love for the ancient Greeks and one-time affair with an English logician. And of her granddaughter Phoebe's geometrical soap bubbles, formidable mother-in-law to be, and Sasha's efforts to come to terms with Phoebe's lifestyle. I loved it!

Last updated: November 21, 2000 .