Hmm. I don't usually like chick lit, but that sounds pretty fun.
Granted that books focusing on the experience of being a minority are necessary, when I was a kid what I really wanted to read were books where the heroine was Jewish (or just female) that weren't specifically about the experience of being Jewish (or female) in a prejudiced society. (Like the "All-of-a-Kind-Family" series.) Actually, I still prefer those.
That was one of the things I liked in Margo Rabb's Cures for Heartbreak-- the heroine is Jewish and that affects her life, self, and family, but the book is about grief, family, and moving on, not anti-Semistism, the Holocaust, or the difficulty of being a Jew in America.
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Sat, Jul. 14th, 2007 07:43 pm (UTC)Granted that books focusing on the experience of being a minority are necessary, when I was a kid what I really wanted to read were books where the heroine was Jewish (or just female) that weren't specifically about the experience of being Jewish (or female) in a prejudiced society. (Like the "All-of-a-Kind-Family" series.) Actually, I still prefer those.
That was one of the things I liked in Margo Rabb's Cures for Heartbreak-- the heroine is Jewish and that affects her life, self, and family, but the book is about grief, family, and moving on, not anti-Semistism, the Holocaust, or the difficulty of being a Jew in America.