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Title: Wooden, cold, stilted
Review: This story is about a little Jewish boy, Asher Lev, who is from a severely conservative Hasidic family and neighborhood in New York.At a very early age, he becomes obsessed with drawing and he is exceptionally good. Long story short - he's an artistic prodigy, which disturbs his parents to no end because they believe art to be anti-Jewish and a sin.Asher said the world was not pretty and he wouldn't paint it pretty and, boy, he didn't. I think the moral of the story is that sometimes, when you choose your own path, it hurts people.My biggest complaint about this book is that the boy was so wooden and unlikable. He talked in monosyllables, if he talked at all. His personality was cold and stilted and his mother's personality was just as unrealistic and empty.I do not understand why people loved this book.
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