Critical Praise

"Summons a genuinely affecting lyrical elegiac voice, celebrating lives and ways of life as they pass into something else."

——Newsday

"Wonderful . . . It is at once an old-fashioned family saga, with plot twists worthy of George Eliot's Daniel Deronda, and, like that novel, a delicate, compassionate meditation on the inheritance and creation of religious, familial, and individual identity."