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Title: Not for me ...
Review: In a word: yuck. I made it about 1/4 of the way through this book, hoping to find a glimmer of inspiration to trudge forward. No such luck. Instead, I feel like I need to shower ... fully clothed. I agree with another 1-star commenter who found the book to be "a turn off." The horrors of the holocaust are undeniably ghastly, but a sexual encounter between the ghost of an old man with half his head blown to pieces and a young girl (13 or 14, the book says) who is dying of TB? My stomach is still turning. I found nothing "enlivening" about this account, certainly nothing beautiful, and I can't bring myself to read further in effort discover the value others found in this book. My one star goes to the crow who embodies the spirit of a dead rabbi. I mean, who doesn't love the idea of a philosophical corvid? But if you want a talking crow AND a better storyline, try Brian Doyle'sMink River.
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