I read his Exodus when I was 13. I learned so much from it.Now reading Battle Cry by Leon Uris
What are you reading?
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Read that one too but don't remember much. I went through a Uris/Roth phase in my early 20s where I kinda overdid the American Jewish Experience (not, as far as I know, Jewish myself, just rabbit-holed the topic) and then burned out on it. There are scenes and lines that stuck with me, but a lot of the overall stories are absent from my head.
I was the same in high school. Only in America and Joys of Yiddish behind my Chem book, liberal sprinklings of Lower East Side slang in my talk . . . I intended to write my final term paper for American History on "Jewish Immigrants' Influence on American Life and Culture," but there was so much material, I was snowed under and my teacher did nothing to help me narrow it down. I never wrote the paper. And being a second semester senior and already accepted into college, I got away with it.
Unlike now, the large Jewish contingent in my high school saw my obsession not as cultural appropriation, but as solidarity.
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As for what I'm reading, it's India Hayford's The Song of the Blue Bottle Tree. You know the author as our own @CatrionaGrace.
Uris is so hit or miss. Maybe the most hit or miss ever. There's a few that are great and a few that are unreadable.
I read it at the same age. Its revelations were nothing short of life-changing. I had nightmares for weeks and food for thought for a lifetime.
Thank you for reading my book, Catrin.
PS is it kosher for me to mention BookBub is running a $1.99 sale for a limited time? BookBub link If not, please just remove this line quietly and I'll slink away.
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