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    <body><![CDATA[While this is a collection of short stories, they all revolve around one family, over the course of about fifteen years, giving the book much more of a novel feel. In fact, while many of the stories were strong in and of themselves, there were a few that I didn't feel stood up on their own. Because ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/60874228">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I was slow to warm up to this book of related stories.  The characters were initially hard to get a handle on.  The stories are collected in chronological order, but sometimes the information left out about events that aren't included in the stories confused me.  But by the second half of the collec...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/54529631">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Once again, Allegra Goodman proves herself to be the master of the human psyche.  I actually read these stories out of order- years ago, I flipped through &quot;The Four Questions,&quot; as it was included in the Norton Anthology of Jewish American literature.  I felt confident that I &quot;knew&quot;...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/26897061">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[The stories in this collection are so linked and consistent, the book is almost a novel. It tells the comic and endearing history of a family of archetypal American Jews. Rose, the finicky and irrational Jewish mother, becomes increasingly dependent on Percodan and on her two sons, Ed, a hard-headed academic, and Henry, an arty dilettante. Ed's writer wife Sara suffers through teaching creative writing at the local Jewish Community Center. Ed painfully endures an interfaith weekend with crushingly banal Christian ecumenists, even though both he and Sara are completely irreligious. Meanwhile their daughter Miriam alarms them by rediscovering Judaism. Goodman, whose stories appear regularly in the <em>New Yorker,</em> delights the reader with recognition of the funny in the familiar.]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[I wanted to like this book more. It's well written, and the characters are interesting, but I felt it was trying too hard to be amusing and charming. I'm sure many people like it a lot, but it just didn't work for me. <br/> ]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[Allegra Goodman has been described as an &quot;altogether original  talent&quot; (<em>Los Angeles Times</em>) whose writing is &quot;hilarious&quot;  (<em>New York Newsday</em>). In <em>The Family Markowitz</em>, Goodman  writes with charm and compassion about three generations of  Markowitzes making their way in America. Among them are Rose, the  cantankerous matriarch; Henry, her formerly gay but now married son  who runs a Laura Ashley shop in London; her younger son Ed, a  terrorism expert at Georgetown; and Ed's daughter Miriam, the medical  student who, to her parents' consternation, becomes a born-again  Jew. Through extraordinary crises and ordinary rituals, they assert  their love and independence, and never fail to speak their minds.]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[You don't get inside the characters' heads as much in this story as in her subsequent books, but I still enjoyed it.<br/><br/>&quot;But it is hard to sustain a life with memories, especially when the best memories come from novels.&quot;]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I checked this book out from the library and left it on a plane.  The library replaced it and I checked it out again.  I'm happy to say that I finished the book and returned it to my branch without incident.  This is a story of a family that has different family members trading off as the narrator. ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/25869760">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[i found this on a shelf and remembered that I had read it. Unfortunately I don't remember if i liked it or not. ]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[If you are in your mid 50s and have a profound connection to your jewish family heritage, I bet this book is the bomb.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Perfectly pleasant read but I did not find myself attached to any of the characters.]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[Allegra Goodman has been described as an &quot;altogether original  talent&quot; (<em>Los Angeles Times</em>) whose writing is &quot;hilarious&quot;  (<em>New York Newsday</em>). In <em>The Family Markowitz</em>, Goodman  writes with charm and compassion about three generations of  Markowitzes making their way in America. Among them are Rose, the  cantankerous matriarch; Henry, her formerly gay but now married son  who runs a Laura Ashley shop in London; her younger son Ed, a  terrorism expert at Georgetown; and Ed's daughter Miriam, the medical  student who, to her parents' consternation, becomes a born-again  Jew. Through extraordinary crises and ordinary rituals, they assert  their love and independence, and never fail to speak their minds.]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[The Family Markowitz by Allegra Goodman (1997)]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Once again astute descriptions of people from Goodman - you have got to love them while loathing them. Don't expect action, expect thrilling descriptions of little situations, find yourself shaking your head at these people, but you recognize something of yourself and your crazy family in each of th...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/12557001">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[The stories in this collection are so linked and consistent, the book is almost a novel. It tells the comic and endearing history of a family of archetypal American Jews. Rose, the finicky and irrational Jewish mother, becomes increasingly dependent on Percodan and on her two sons, Ed, a hard-headed academic, and Henry, an arty dilettante. Ed's writer wife Sara suffers through teaching creative writing at the local Jewish Community Center. Ed painfully endures an interfaith weekend with crushingly banal Christian ecumenists, even though both he and Sara are completely irreligious. Meanwhile their daughter Miriam alarms them by rediscovering Judaism. Goodman, whose stories appear regularly in the <em>New Yorker,</em> delights the reader with recognition of the funny in the familiar.]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[I really like Allegra Goodman.  It's just that I like each book I read a little less.  I started with her newest, Intuition, which is amazing.  Then Kaaterskill Falls, which was great.  Now, back further, The Family Markowitz.  I like her writing a lot.  But by the end of the book Ed Markowitz was d...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2329166">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I would give this 3.5 - I liked the family but I felt like the characters didn't really change as the book went from start to finish. I didn't think there was a lot of character development. I do like the way the author writes, though. I think maybe just stick to her short stories from now on!]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[An odd look into the dynamics of a family.  At times I felt as though I was being given access to secrets that an outisder shouldn't be allowed to see or know.  ]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Halfway in between short stories and a novel, this was mostly enjoyable but ultimately not quite satisfying - I like a full-fledged novel.  ]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[The stories in this collection are so linked and consistent, the book is almost a novel. It tells the comic and endearing history of a family of archetypal American Jews. Rose, the finicky and irrational Jewish mother, becomes increasingly dependent on Percodan and on her two sons, Ed, a hard-headed academic, and Henry, an arty dilettante. Ed's writer wife Sara suffers through teaching creative writing at the local Jewish Community Center. Ed painfully endures an interfaith weekend with crushingly banal Christian ecumenists, even though both he and Sara are completely irreligious. Meanwhile their daughter Miriam alarms them by rediscovering Judaism. Goodman, whose stories appear regularly in the <em>New Yorker,</em> delights the reader with recognition of the funny in the familiar.]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[Goodman seems her best when she sticks to what she knows. <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/search/search?q= Intuition" title=" Intuition"> Intuition</a> is the only awkward novel of hers that i have read.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I have no recollection of this, but my notes say I read it. I didn't remember it right after I read it. So it must be forgettable.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[A lovely book.  Not as multifaceted and layered as Kaaterskill Falls, but a good read just the same.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I love funny books about Jews! And this is one! Her other books, not so much. But this one, great.]]></body>
    
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