A review by evanmhanover
My Name Is Asher Lev by Chaim Potok

5.0

Just an amazing book. Writing about the child prodigy can be so disastrous makes this precocious young artist vs. his Hasid family/community and Orthodox tradition that much greater. Most striking is how Potok made me simultaneously feel for Asher Lev as he discovered the power of his artistic gift and realize how far from my understanding of the world the artist's eye is.