A review by wendoxford
Between Gods: A Memoir by Alison Pick
4.0
This book feels as if it is a conversation rather than a memoir. An astonishly open account of Alison's tenacious journey of conversion to Judaism born of a depression of which her family history turns out to be the root. The fact that she was born of paternal Jewish grandparents who managed to escape Czechoslavakia as the Holocaust closed in and sought refuge in Canada hiding in Christianity, makes the journey all the more astonishing.
Although I sometimes thought the telling was somewhat schmaltzy, on reflection it wasn't. It is a coming to terms with who she really is against the backdrop of history, family secrets and the insufferably gruelling search for acknowledgement of her identity alongside her non-Jewish partner.
Although I sometimes thought the telling was somewhat schmaltzy, on reflection it wasn't. It is a coming to terms with who she really is against the backdrop of history, family secrets and the insufferably gruelling search for acknowledgement of her identity alongside her non-Jewish partner.