merricatct 's review for:

My Name Is Asher Lev by Chaim Potok

5.0

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This is probably going to be the last book of the year for me, and I can’t imagine a better way to close out my reading year. This left me speechless, in the best way. I started and finished this in the same day, which is wild because I was both trying to read slowly in order to enjoy it as long as possible, and at the same time wanting to devour it as fast as I could. Tragic, powerful, a love song for anyone who’s found that they don’t fit in, a warning about the frightening power of creativity vs. faith and family - I’ll be thinking about this story for a long time.