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Friday, 20 September 2019

Jewish Life? Apparently Not!


I began reading **Appearances: A Novel hoping that the author’s intent is satire.

Alas, no!

This is a po-faced account of a self-centred, self-absorbed wealthy section of the US Boston Jewish community and so inadvertently does the wicked work of racists everywhere.

I debated whether to say anything and have decided to do so simply to warn friendly but unsuspecting outsiders that, even accounting for basic editorial mistakes along with the many known differences in universal Jewish custom and tradition, much of what ‘Sondra Helene’ describes is - well – quite ridiculously but by no means laughably wrong.

** Appearances: A Novel by Sondra Helene is available from Amazon on Kindle @ $8.69, Paperback @ $11.99 and also Audiobook format.

© Natalie Wood (20 September 2019)




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