This novel was just, to sum it up, a disappointment for me.I'll start with what I did like first. I liked the idea of it, of Gustave Flaubert and Florence Nightingale and a grand tour of Egypt and what their encounters would be like. I LOVED the detail. It was so rich and vibrant. Enid Shomer's l...
Eleven short stories with many American Jewish characters deal with connections and disconnections of tradition and family, love, and sex.
Nevertheless, she pondered her strategy all day. Though loving, permissive, and endearingly absentminded, Charles and Selina bore in loco parentis the responsibility for her safety. This was no mere formality: they would require assurances about the trip that she, Gustave, and Max would have to p...