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speaks but he does not carry it off com-
pletely."
As the novel progresses, the Rav will
need to indicate to his followers the
plans for his succession.
The novel takes place over two years,
from 1976 to 1978, with most of the
action during summertime. Quotes
about the seasons introduce the sections.
Goodman says the fact that the novel
begins in the year of this nation's bicen-
tennial is significant, hearkening back to
the origins of America when separatists
came to this country to escape religious
persecution, trying to found a new com-
munity in America.
Several dramas play out through the
novel, involving characters of several
generations and questions of romance,
nature, real estate and conflicts between
the Kirshners and the year-round resi-
dents.
Through the details of daily life,
Goodman explores themes of assimila-
tion and tradition, family and com-
munity, morality and faith. The novel
is great late summer reading from a
talented writer who crafts beautiful
sentences; Goodman makes us think
and laugh.
Goodman takes Judaism seriously,
getting all the details right. Addressing
her work to a general audience that
includes Jews and non-Jews, she's not at
all self-conscious in integrating Jewish
concepts, expressions and prayers in her
narrative.
She uses Hebrew and Yiddish terms
throughout the text, without italics,
often without any clarification other
than the context. She explains that she
doesn't like "breaking the flow" and
thinks that readers will understand her
meaning without these words "separated
out as foreign."
The author spent most of her child-
hood in Hawaii, but her mother's family
had a house in the Catskills and she vis-
ited as a young child. Although she had
the place very much in mind, she says
that the novel is a "combination of
memory, experience and imagination,
like all writing."
Two of the characters in the novel,
the scholars Cecil and Beatrix, appear in
earlier Goodman stories, featured in the
collection, Total Immersion, which has
just been released in a new edition fea-
turing two additional stories that have
appeared in The New Yorker.
Goodman, the mother of two sons, is
now working on a new novel, set in
Hawaii, which she describes as having a
‘`very different sort of voice. But I think
people will be able to tell it's written by
me." Fr,

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