From the Bookshelf of Tyler Public Library…

[close] Tolstoy’s quote from Anna Karenina “Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way” is certainly applicable to the Solomon family. Yakov Solomon, a successful construction entrepreneur and his beautiful wife Vivienne, raise their five children during the aftermath of WWll in an Israeli kibbutz, not far from Jerusalem. Ball’s debut is a madcap tragi-comedy masterpiece with the screwball Solomon family drama at center-stage. I devoured this in one afternoon; I was simply unable to put it down.