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...same feeling from Goodman's stories, which are filled with faceless characters whose lives are enmeshed in bizarre and often unclear ways...
...GOODMAN'S book is primarily about the problems of maintaining conservative Jewish values in unlikely settings--Hawaii and Oxford, England. Total Immersion is about identity and the problems of balancing different cultures and reconciling tradition with modern problems...
...unlike my grandmother's descriptions of broken marriages and local scandals, Allegra Goodman's collection of short stories is very, very funny...
...Goodman's satirical humor is what carries the book. She writes about the hypocrisy of Jewish life in Hawaii, the fundamental impossibility of modernizing ancient Jewish law and the selfabsorption of both young...
...Goodman describes in "Variant Text" an agnostic but rigidly observant househusband who wears an Abortion Rights button to Sabbath services and responds to a colleague's questions reagarding his faith with, "When you read a book, do you have to know the author to enjoy...