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A review by citizen_noir
The Weight of Ink by Rachel Kadish
5.0
If I could give this book six stars, I would; it's a brilliant, beautiful, literary page-turner set in London in two time periods: the 1660s and the turn of this century. The narrative weaves back and forth between Ester Velazquez, a young woman who is permitted to scribe for a blind rabbi, and a pair of modern day literary historians who are trying to piece together Ester's story from a trove of documents discovered during a home renovation.
Huge kudos to the author, Rachel Kadish (who my wife’s college roommate and remains a close friend) for pulling off this masterpiece. I think many readers might get scared off by a nearly 600 page book with Jewish history and philosophy at its core. Above I wrote the oxymoron "literary page-turner" intentionally because this book is just that: magnificently researched and exquisitely written by Kadish, with twists, turns, and surprises all the way to the final page.
Huge kudos to the author, Rachel Kadish (who my wife’s college roommate and remains a close friend) for pulling off this masterpiece. I think many readers might get scared off by a nearly 600 page book with Jewish history and philosophy at its core. Above I wrote the oxymoron "literary page-turner" intentionally because this book is just that: magnificently researched and exquisitely written by Kadish, with twists, turns, and surprises all the way to the final page.