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Article: TIME FOR A BREAK
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- Chicago Jewish Star
- Article date:
- June 19, 2009
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It's been a cool start to summer, but we know those long lazy days are coming - we're counting on them! Whether you relax on the beach or in the back yard, travel far or stay close to home, one essential ingredient for a satisfying summer recipe is a good book.
True, the choices are pretty much limitless. But not to worry; Associate Editor GILA WERTHEIMER selected a few, newly published works of fiction, just tangy enough for warm-weather fare.
For the first time since 1950, the winner of the 2008 National Jewish Book Award for Fiction is, somewhat surprisingly, not Jewish. In fact he's Catholic, the son of a priest and a former nun. And yet in this debut novel he writes a very Jewish ...