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Nes Castillo losdearriba — Brilliant

Jack Barratt jackbarratt — Difficult to say how I feel about this book. It was interesting to follow the story of this 20-something Russian-Jewish girl, Lillian, who emigrates to New York in the 1920's after her parents, husband, and young daughter are slaughtered in pogrom violence. Being female, Jewish, poor, and alone, there are few opportunities available to her, but she is determined to make it, so she become the mistress to a wealthy Jewish theater owner where she works as a seamstress, as well as his son. A relative finds her and tells her something that makes her want to make her way to Siberia. Most of the books follows Lillian's journey West, across the U.S. by train, scraping by in Seattle, walking across the Alaskan wilderness. What is most compelling about the book are the "outsiders" she meets along the way, and the way the author tells you the outcome of each person's life even after Lillian has passed through. I think that I kept reading because the characters she met were so interesting - a patchwork of stories that were typical in the U.S. in the 1920's. I also liked the frankness of the sexuality in the book, which generally was unromantic and done for survival reasons. But I never felt like I really got to know Lillian very well. Sounds odd, but it was like her "wall" never came down, even for the reader. Maybe that was done on purpose, but it frustrated me.

David Etheridge _avid_theridge — After the first few chapters of this book I was thinking please not another book that I just can't get into. I stop reading a book once I start but it feels like I am struggling through a lot of books lately. About half way through though it began to draw me in and I couldn't put it down after that. I wish the ending would have been a little better but over all it was OK.