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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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