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Title: Good light read
Review: This book reminded me so much of my mother's stories from NY in the 1950s! If you have some old relative (yiddish, jewish, italian, hispanic, black, whatever) and you love to hear their stories, you'll like this book. Yes, the plot is filled with cliches-- women must remain virgins until they're married, devout Catholic families are intensely suspicious, old-world men frown upon career girls, a mother's only job is to serve her husband and marry off her kids, we're forbidden to marry outside our culture. The book over-dramatizes these cultural elements, but it adds amusement to the plot. It's not Shakespeare, but it's very entertaining and packs much more historical and cultural depth than that trash Danielle Steele and Judy Blume write. You can tell that the author did her research!
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