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

4.0

Teaching this book in my first-year seminar. The last time I read it was in college, and I remember thinking it was one of the best novels I read, that I related to Asher's deep calling to create because I wanted that deep calling, too. This time, I resonated with the mother, fraught with worry for her son, torn between the competing desires of her spouse and her son. For me, a study in how the same book can have completely different impacts on its reader.