<![CDATA[Not Me: A Novel]]>

false <![CDATA[Not Me: A Novel]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1173151933m/252033.jpg 252033 3 Not Me is a remarkable debut novel that tells the dramatic and surprising stories of two men–father and son–through sixty years of uncertain memory, distorted history, and assumed identity. When Heshel Rosenheim, apparently suffering from Alzheimer’s disease, hands his son, Michael, a box of moldy old journals, an amazing adventure begins–one that takes the reader from the concentration camps of Poland to an improbable love story during the battle for Palestine, from a cancer ward in New Jersey to a hopeless marriage in San Francisco. The journals, which seem to tell the story of Heshel’s life, are so harrowing, so riveting, so passionate, and so perplexing that Michael becomes obsessed with discovering the truth about his father. As Michael struggles to come to grips with his father’s elusive past, a world of complex and disturbing possibilities opens up to him–a world in which an accomplice to genocide may have turned into a virtuous Jew and a young man cannot recall murdering the person he loves most; a world in which truth is fiction and fiction is truth and one man’s terrible–or triumphant–transformation calls history itself into question. Michael must then solve the biggest riddle of all: Who am I? Intense, vivid, funny, and entirely original, Not Me is an unsparing and unforgettable examination of faith, history, identity, and love. From the Hardcover edition. 1283575 2005 Not Me: A Novel total:230|5:55|4:82|3:68|2:21|1:4| 230 853 379 69 5 2 false false Tue May 19 22:05:52 -0700 2009 Thu May 21 05:26:17 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5 1 false false Tue Feb 03 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Tue Sep 30 15:26:25 -0700 2008 Tue Feb 03 22:51:41 -0800 2009 more...]]> 5 0 false false Wed Jul 22 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Wed Jul 22 18:16:26 -0700 2009 Thu Aug 27 07:29:00 -0700 2009
What if your father wasn't a Jewish Holocaust survivor but rather a member of the German SS who stole a camp prisoner's name and adopted a new identity? How would you feel if you found this out soon after your father checked into a ho...more...]]> 1 0 false false Fri May 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Fri May 01 12:50:31 -0700 2009 Fri May 01 12:53:03 -0700 2009
And, this reads like a first novel... the transitions are very rough, making the "journal" not quite fit the narrator's story.

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By far, this was my favorite sentence in all of Michael Lavigne’s poignant and moving story Not Me. It’s rare that I read a sentence in a book over a...more...]]> 4 0 false false Sun Nov 02 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Sat Oct 18 08:59:09 -0700 2008 Sun Nov 02 18:27:09 -0800 2008 1 more...]]> 1 0 false false Wed Oct 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Sun Sep 21 13:54:53 -0700 2008 Wed Oct 01 13:24:44 -0700 2008 more...]]> 3 0 false false Mon Aug 25 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Wed Aug 27 21:29:22 -0700 2008 Wed Aug 27 21:31:37 -0700 2008 more...]]> 3 0 false false Tue May 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Wed May 02 18:07:31 -0700 2007 Tue May 08 21:55:01 -0700 2007 more...]]> 5 0 false false Sun Jun 07 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Thu Jun 04 21:56:10 -0700 2009 Mon Jun 08 06:20:18 -0700 2009 more...]]> 2 0 false false Sun Mar 01 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Mon Mar 16 13:38:49 -0700 2009 Thu Mar 19 08:25:41 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5 0 false false Mon Dec 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Sun Nov 16 21:19:13 -0800 2008 Mon Dec 15 19:43:43 -0800 2008 more...]]> 4 0 false false Sat Mar 21 09:41:59 -0700 2009 Sat Mar 28 18:19:18 -0700 2009 more...]]> 3 0 false false Sat Aug 15 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon Aug 03 14:49:12 -0700 2009 Sat Aug 15 19:49:56 -0700 2009 more...]]> 3 0 false false Tue Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Sat Jan 26 17:54:13 -0800 2008 Fri Feb 01 07:42:51 -0800 2008
Heshel Rosenheim is an elderly Holocaust survivor, a famous Jewish philanthropist, and an Alzheimer's patient. When his son, Michael, begins to read his father's old journals he makes a sickening discovery: Heshel may have actually been a Nazi off...more...]]> 4 0 false false Fri May 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sat May 30 02:46:06 -0700 2009 Sat May 30 02:49:39 -0700 2009 3 0 false false Sun Nov 30 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Sun Nov 30 15:14:18 -0800 2008 Sun Nov 30 15:18:02 -0800 2008 ]]> 3 0 false false Wed Nov 19 19:15:12 -0800 2008 Sun Nov 16 20:40:03 -0800 2008 Wed Nov 19 19:15:12 -0800 2008 3 0 false false Fri Jun 26 15:28:30 -0700 2009 Fri Jun 26 15:30:03 -0700 2009 3 0 false false Sat Nov 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Wed Jan 07 09:48:37 -0800 2009 Wed Jan 07 09:50:19 -0800 2009 http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=252033