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Review title: A modest portrait of a microcosmic orthodox Jewish community
Product review: Goodman's portrait of this Kirshner community of religious Jews who summer together in the countryside of upper state New York is both sympathetically respectful and sharply observant. It is about being Jewish in a non-Jewish world, about being bone-deep religious in a world where religiosity is not common, about submitting oneself to the dictates of community rules in a society that prides itself on the oppposite. Yet the two contrasting sons of the Rev Kirshner's family seem not unfamiliar, the plight of Elizabeth pulled between the growing sense of her subculture's strictures and the larger but frightening possibilities outside that, the chasm betw3een the older man tied to his sisters and his young wife Nina - these seem part of a microcosm of any world, however small, however specifically different. It does tend to be episodic; it is limited in the range of its displayed emotions. but it is a lovely book.
