tessisreading2 's review for:

Leah's Journey by Gloria Goldreich

4.0

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I love these kinds of sweeping historical sagas. Despite the back cover copy, the book focuses as much on Leah's two oldest children (Aaron and Rebecca) as it does on Leah, really, and some of the best set pieces involve them. (I'm thinking of Rebecca after World War II, which apparently was excerpted as a short story in a magazine before the book came out.) Definitely old school with the flowery descriptions of sex and whatnot and a lot of very heavy drama, but unlike a lot of these books it's willing for its characters to find happiness and/or love (many saga novels from the 1970s seem to be assume that if anyone ends up happily married it means the author wrote a new take on Sweet Savage Love), which I appreciated.