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In this affecting, perceptive debut novel, Rachel Kadish reflects on the ghosts of the past, the tensions of war, and the difficult bonds of family. When Maya enrolls at Hebrew University in Jerusalem shortly after the Gulf War, she hopes to leave New York and a fraught relationship with her mother behind her. In Israel, she gets to know her older cousin Tami, a housewife whose home has a room sealed against the war's Scud missile attacks. Like Maya, Tami feels distanced from the people closest to her—her mother, her husband, her only son. But it will ultimately be Maya's visits with Shifra, an elderly recluse and Holocaust survivor who lives in the apartment below her, that give Maya the courage to confront her problems and break free of the burdens of her past.
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Richard Obrien
reviewed From a Sealed Room on September 22, 2009
From a Sealed Room
I bought this book because I loved "Tolstoy Lied" by the same author. In "Tolstoy" the characters were very well developed and I truly cared for each of them. "Tolstoy Lied" was released a year after this one, but I figured "Who changes a lot in one year?" I was very wrong.
"From a Sealed Room" was very slow. The characters were kind of thrown into your face at the beginning and I had a hard time keeping them straight in my mind as I continued on to the second, third chapters. I didn't care for the characters either. I felt no connections. I didn't believe they each were very well developed. If one of them suddenly died, it really wouldn't've affected me. I got half way through the book in a matter of weeks, and have since put it down.
This is a very sad moment when I cannot finish a book. (cue funeral music)
I bought this book three months ago and have yet to finish it. That is not typical of me. I read books in from one to four days... for me to not finish a book speaks volumes (haha).
"Tolstoy Lied" is still one of my favorites, but "From a Sealed Room" will be passed down the line to make room for more greats on my book shelf.
Sorry Rachel.
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