A review by waytoomanybooks
The Chosen by Chaim Potok

challenging emotional informative reflective sad tense medium-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Character
  • Strong character development? It's complicated
  • Loveable characters? No
  • Diverse cast of characters? Yes
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.0

Beautiful writing, but quite repetitive and plodding. It's almost all told through exposition and description than dialogue, which is central to the theme. Silence, vision, and hearing create the heart and soul of the novel. If I had to sum the whole book up in one sentence, it would be: It's about the way men experience trauma and the ways they do/do not process trauma.
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