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No hay artículos en el carroKathleen S.
Comentado en los Estados Unidos el 8 de julio de 2021
This book had an interesting viewpoint on a very closed community. When the book ended, I wasn’t sure it was really over. The ending seemed abrupt it could have ended more gracefully.
David
Comentado en los Estados Unidos el 2 de mayo de 2021
I didn’t know what to expect from this novel. It was a National Book Award finalist; though the subject matter wasn’t a typical read for me, Goodman did a splendid job bringing the characters of a cloistered community to life. I learned a lot for my own writing from this book. The story is a fine example of the spiritual that can be found in the mundane. I would recommend this to a friend.
REFine
Comentado en Canadá el 12 de febrero de 2014
I liked the story line and the characters though I though some of the players could have used a bit more fleshing out. There were many of them and sometimes it was hard to keep them all straight. I read this on a Kindle so the ending seemed to come up suddenly and I was looking for a bit more. Overall I did enjoy it and would recommend reading it.
Marcy A. Sheiner
Comentado en los Estados Unidos el 3 de agosto de 2013
The title Kaaterskill Falls refers to the make-believe town in upstate New York where a sect of Orthodox Jews migrate every summer from the steaming city an hour or so south - women and children first, their men following on weekends. Goodman's dive into the hearts and minds of these true believers is fascinating--even though, as a non-observant Jew, I tend to be embarrassed by the Orthodox, with their payes (long side curls on men) and black top hats, the women with shaved heads hidden under wigs. (What sense does it make to get rid of your hair and then suffer in discomfort with fake hair? Defies logic--unless suffering, like so much of Jewish practice, is the point.)The story zooms in on a few families, primarily one with six girls whose mother decides, in a barely believable moment of epiphany, that it's her destiny to open up a kosher store upstate so the Jewish cooks don't have to wait for their menfolk to deliver the Sabbath challah and kosher meats.I liked the book, with some reservations, such as the almost unbelievable drama mentioned above. Another problem is geographical; Goodman's errors undermine the reader's ability to "suspend disbelief". The problem is this: Kaaterskill Falls is an invented village, but the surrounding towns are real: having lived in upstate New York some 15 years, I recognized them. The author, however, apparently didn't look at a map: she puts Phoenecia way too close to Palenville--which it is not (click for map)--and that's just one of several similar mistakes.I won't go into the other minor sticking points, since KF is ultimately a good read, almost tailor-made for summer, especially if you're lucky enough to be sitting on the porch of a lakeside cabin (I'm drooling at the vision). So evocative is Goodman's writing that the reader can almost feel the sticky night air and hear the shouts of kids running after lightning bugs with Good Humor bells jingling in the background. Trust me: you don't have to be Orthodox, or even Jewish, to like Kaaterskill Falls
Roberta Seitzman
Comentado en los Estados Unidos el 5 de marzo de 2013
I'm reading this book for one of my book clubs and find it interesting and very informative about the orthodox community in NYC and Kaaterskill. However-it's not a page turner as I hoped it would be.
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