Daughter
"fascinating
novel"
"author,
Lois Silverstein,has something important and compelling to say (and
knows how to say it) about what it means to be a human being trying
to resolve contemporary problems of personal yet truly universal weight."
"DAUGHTER
shows a never flagging narrative urgency."
"Rachel
is, first and foremost, a loving, loyal daughter to a mother of strong
if exasperating personality. But her relationship with her older sister,
revealed through memory and sometimes acrimonious conversation, also
reveals a kind of mother-daughter bond. In a broader sense, Rachel is
also the daughter of Judaism, whose inexorable demands sometimes collide
with the instincts of this liberated, impetuous, warm-hearted, ultimately
lonely woman. And from the symbolical angle, we would do the author
less than justice were we to forget the story of the original Rachel
-- daughter of Laban, younger sister of Leah, second wife of Jacob,
"weeping for her children... because they were not," a prophetess
by virtue of her goodness towards her elder sister."
-Douglas
Wurtele, Ph.D., Adjunct Professor of English, Carleton University, Ottawa,
Canada.
"a
brilliant piece of prose here. The yiddish was the least of problems,
since it is so close even to modern German."
"I
was really drawn into this urban, somewhat claustrophobic atmosphere
of these NYC-apartment-dwelling people."
"outstanding
quality is your mastership of dialogues - the protagonists seem to be
in the room together with you and you duck your head when one of the
sisters throws a pillow or so onto the other."
"a
born playwright and the book is real drama and could (and should!) easily
be put on a stage."
"In
a way I see it as a second chapter of "Who is afraid of Virginia
Woolf."
-from Dr. Rainer Schmidt, Eichstatt, Germany
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