rachelhelps 's review for:

My Name Is Asher Lev by Chaim Potok
3.0

This is a coming-of-age novel of a Jewish artist. While it deals with how a conservative Jewish father disapproves of his son wasting time making drawings, it also deals with how art can be a channel for the daemonic or the divine. Aside from my personal reservations about Potok's style (he never uses contractions, and it makes his characters feel impersonal to me), I think it was a good book.