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Ozick's previous novel, The Puttermesser Papers, revolved around one quirky hero; this time around, Ozick incubates several. Characters, not plot, drive this Depression-era tale, and Ozick eviscerates each one through her narrator, Rose Meadows, a resolute 18-year-old orphan. Virtually abandoned, Rose wanders into a job with the Mitwisser family, German refugees in New York City. Filling gaping holes in their household, she becomes a research assistant to the father, a professor stubbornly engaged in German and Hebrew arcana; a nurse to his oft-deranged, sequestered wife; and nanny to their five children. As she penetrates the fog surrounding their history, Rose limns their roiling inner lives with exasperated perception. Mrs. Mitwisser especially chafes against the family's precarious, degrading status as "parasites," erratically supported by the unbalanced millionaire son and heir of an author of popular children's books who is fascinated by Mr. Mitwisser's research. With her trademark lyrical prose, gentle humor and vivid imagery, Ozick paints a textured portrait of outsiders rendered powerless, retreating into tightly coiled existences of scholarly rapture, guarded brazenness and even calculated lunacy—all as a means of refuting the bleakness of a harsh, chaotic world. Erudite exposition is packed into the book, so that character study and discourse occasionally grind the plot to a halt. Edifying and evocative, if often daunting, this is a concentrated slice of eccentric life.
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From Booklist
Ozick sets in motion a kaleidoscopic array of complex entanglements in her much anticipated new novel, a work of scintillating intelligence and supple imagination that, like The Puttermesser Papers (1997), draws on sacred and literary traditions to create a tale at once compassionate and brightly satirical, otherworldly and down to earth. It's 1933 and the Mitwissers, a prominent Jewish German family, have escaped the Nazis and found a dubious yet irresistible champion in peripatetic and dissolute James Philip A'Bair, who is intrigued by Professor Rudolph Mitwisser's obsession with Karaism, a renegade eighth-century Baghdad-based Jewish doctrine rejecting rabbinical interpretations in favor of a strict focus on scripture. Known as the Bear Boy, James is the reluctant heir to a great fortune amassed by his father, a children's author who, like A. A. Milne and his character Christopher Robin, used his son as a model for what became a beloved icon. James sets the Mitwissers up in a rangy old house in the Bronx, where Rose Meadows, a pragmatic 18-year-old orphan steeped in Charlotte Bronte and Jane Austen, serves as caretaker, nanny, typist, confidante, and discerning witness to a strange and compelling world. Gruff and preoccupied, Rudolph is fascinating, but his physicist wife, Elsa, gravely depressed yet all-knowing, steals the show. There are also three wild boys, a regal teenage daughter, and a neglected baby girl. Money and affection are scarce, but secrets, chaos, and angst abound. As her captivating characters struggle to come to terms with their raided past, Ozick brilliantly dramatizes the conflict between theology and science, various modes of mythmaking and survival, and "the hot drive to dissent, to subvert, to fly from what all men accept!" Donna Seaman
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