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Title: YAWN
Review: Sucher's book purports to talk of a woman's coming of age and how her Jewish origins and the family's experiences in the Holocaust contributes to her development. However, the book does not relate her growing up with experiences of being in a family still trying to come to terms and accept what happened in WWII. The Holocaust does not in anyway seem to play a contributing factor in the protaganist's growth. Instead, it details growing up pangs which is nothing different or significant from a person in any other ethnic or cultural group. Ursula Hegi is a good person to read on what it was like to grow up German in the aftermath of war. I was hoping Sucher would be a corresponding Jewish author who could tell the other side of the story, but the book was a major disappointment. Boring, predictable, and doesn't live up to its promise.
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