A review by erstreetman
Heir to the Glimmering World by Cynthia Ozick

3.0

I didn't get it. The entire plot arc is unclear to me, except in how the main character slowly discovers the story of her host family. The interesting thing about the narrator here is that she's a lower class young woman. That much is clear from her upbringing and career options in the world. She is employed by a family, yet the word servant is little used. She's an interesting, complex character, the type of house servant who is usually relegated to a "good servant" or "bad servant" when the story is told from the employer's perspective. But the focus of the storytelling shifts from who I've just described to basically an unexpected character somewhere in the middle. It lost me.