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Title: totally unrealistic
Review: First of all, this book's portrayal of immigrant Jews in the early 1900s was TOTALLY UNREALISTIC! Joshua, a highly observant and traditional 1910 Jew, would NEVER kiss Rachel, a girl he is not even married to, in public. Also, the dialect was unrealistic. (I.e. they would not have said skullcap--they would have used a Hebrew or Yiddush word for this head covering.) I also did not like how it was always Rachel's beauty that opened doors for her. And the book was always talking about how Rachel was trying to choose between her heritage and being an American. It never once attempts to explain exactly what this heritage is or means or what she would be giving up by marrying Nathan. The characters were flat, predictable and two dimensional. Basically, a horrible book.
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