A review by outcolder
Saint Mazie by Jami Attenberg

5.0

The story of a zaftig tzaddik with a yiddish nishoma and a Catholic heart, a lover of the street life who stays loyal to her allrightnik family. Multiple POVs and episodic plots keep this ultimately positive but often tragic story moving. Another review compared it with Frank Capra and I was also thinking of Damon Runyan when I was reading it but be prepared for some explicit sex, death and alcohol served with New York attitude. The description of some historical events draw eerie parallels to today, for example the Wall Street car bomb in 1920 is like a premonition of the 2001 Twin Towers attack and then a few years later a terrible economic crisis, the crash of 1929 feeling like the crisis of 2008 all viewed and smelled from street level.