Thanks for the tip. I've been debating wading into this. I haven't trusted the glowing reviews because literary praise has become so political, and politicaly there's so much to admire about this book, apart from the literary merit. I understand that though a Jew (converted to Catholicism, correct?) the novel doesn't cover the Jews at all.
How strange the irony that she wound up being liquidated as a Jew. When they come after the Mormons they better not get me, because I'm inocent of that crime.
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Interrupt all you like. We're involved in a complicated story here, and not everything is quite what it seems to be.
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