Elise Esther Hearst
Auteur de One Day We're All Going to Die
Œuvres de Elise Esther Hearst
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Still, I had doubts when I read the blurb.
Hmm.
Twenty-something angst is not something I ever felt. Especially not the sort of angst that comes partly from a failure to disentangle oneself from parental expectations. Naomi at 27 has a great job at the Museum of Jewish Heritage (which is obviously this, most recently visited by me for the Chagall exhibition). But as the blurb says, she is trying to be a normal person who works at a Jewish Museum, who cares for lost things, found things, sacred things, and her family. But she finds herself going on bad blind dates, having cringe-worthy sex, a tumultuous, toxic affair, and falling for a man called Moses.
Fortunately Naomi has a gay non-Jewish BFF called Gemma who not only keeps her grounded but also saved the novel for me. Gemma is the kind of friend who knows what you're thinking before you do, and who knows when you have fallen for someone totally wrong for you but doesn't talk to you like your mother does. Who is free from the existential Jewish issues about identity, history and the imperative to marry within the community.
Although there is rather a lot of weeping, there is also a lot of laughter (and mostly awkward lust). This is not a sentimental novel, and Hearst pokes fun at taboos.
To read the rest of my review please visit https://anzlitlovers.com/2024/03/06/one-day-were-all-going-to-die-2023-by-elise-...… (plus d'informations)