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I could see why some might like this. Sometimes you're in the mood for a long trashy wallow, and this could deliver it. Here you have nearly 700 pages of eye-straining small font about a Polish Jew, Anna, who comes to America not long after the turn of the 20th Century in the years before World War I. She starts out living with her cousin on Hester street, and I imagine many might have seen the stories of their own grandmothers and great-grandmothers in Anna when this was published. I can unders
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Still enjoyable the second time around. The family dynamics, religious discrimination, and multi-generational story led to interesting book club discussions last night.
After "The Ring" I kind of went through a Jewish/Holocaust/family saga kind of phase.
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Wow. Thought provoking and a sense of a real journey.
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