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All-of-a-Kind Family (All-of-a-Kind-Family, #1)
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bookshelves: book-club-selection, family, for-the-child-inside, history, read-out-loud
Jun 28, 2022
bookshelves: book-club-selection, family, for-the-child-inside, history, read-out-loud
I just finished this book. What a nice ending. The climax surprised me and even brought tears to my eyes. Didn't see it coming! 🌻
The book is about a Jewish family consisting of mama, papa, and five stair-step daughters living in the Lower East Side around the turn of the last century. It both explains Jewishness to the larger population and normalizes it, true to the era in which it was written: the 1950s. The children in the story would have been older than my parents and would have been born from 80 to 90 years before my children.
Half of the book I'd read out loud to my recently turned six-years-old granddaughter, but I went on and finished in readiness for a book-group discussion next week. The book had consisted of episodes, and I really hadn't expected developments beyond that.
I may come back with more analysis after the book discussion. For now will just stay with the ending -- the happy ending. The interesting point for me now is that this book and the rest of its series are in public libraries here in Atlanta (even though I myself had never heard of it until recently). It remains in print, in a paperback version.
The book is about a Jewish family consisting of mama, papa, and five stair-step daughters living in the Lower East Side around the turn of the last century. It both explains Jewishness to the larger population and normalizes it, true to the era in which it was written: the 1950s. The children in the story would have been older than my parents and would have been born from 80 to 90 years before my children.
Half of the book I'd read out loud to my recently turned six-years-old granddaughter, but I went on and finished in readiness for a book-group discussion next week. The book had consisted of episodes, and I really hadn't expected developments beyond that.
I may come back with more analysis after the book discussion. For now will just stay with the ending -- the happy ending. The interesting point for me now is that this book and the rest of its series are in public libraries here in Atlanta (even though I myself had never heard of it until recently). It remains in print, in a paperback version.
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June 21, 2022
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June 21, 2022
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June 21, 2022
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book-club-selection
June 21, 2022
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family
June 21, 2022
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for-the-child-inside
June 21, 2022
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history
June 21, 2022
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read-out-loud
June 28, 2022
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Finished Reading
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Jun 27, 2022 07:33AM
omg, one of my fav books as a kid. Thanks for the reminder & the trip down memory lane.
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T wrote: "omg, one of my fav books as a kid. Thanks for the reminder & the trip down memory lane."Thanks, T. I missed this as a child, probably something to do w/living in the south, as I've asked others, and they missed it too. Am currently reading to a six-year-old grandchild and actually persuaded another book club to read, so I will go on and finish soon.
A true eye-opener for me as a kid growing up on a farm in rural Nebraska in the 60s.
T wrote: "A true eye-opener for me as a kid growing up on a farm in rural Nebraska in the 60s."If you don't mind my asking, T, how did you happen to come across it? And did you read all the rest of the series?
Just finished reading to my six-year-old granddaughter today. :)
Wonderful review. I think I read it as a child. I know I’m going to by it and read it now.
