One critic has linked this novel to Woody Allen for its depiction of Upper West Side Jewish Manhattan and to Edith Wharton for its mores, but its main literary precedent seems to be none other than Rossner's own earlier novels, with which it shares significant themes about love, tradition, and female identity. The writing is lighter in this one, more filled with domestic detail. Occasionally it bogs down in pedantic lectures on food.....
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