Title: The World That We Knew
Series: Not At The Moment
Author: Alice Hoffman
Illustrator/Book Cover Design: Unknown
Genre: Fiction, Literature, Magical Realism
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Received: Free For Honest Review
Release Date: September 2019
Pages: 372
Rating:
Author’s Official Websites:
Website:
https://alicehoffman.com/
Blog:
None Found
Facebook:
https://www.facebook.com/AliceHoffmanAuthor/
Twitter:
https://twitter.com/ahoffmanwriter
Instagram:
https://www.instagram.com/ahoffmanwriter/
Shannon’s Thoughts:
During the beginning of WWII, two young girls’ futures collide. A Jewish mother plans an escape for her daughter Lea. Her mother’s heart breaks as she can not go with her daughter but she wants Lea to be protected as if she were there herself. The mother conspires with Ettie, a rabbi’s daughter, to create a mystical being named Ava to care for Lea as if she were the girl’s mother. The other girl Ettie goes in hiding preparing to fight for freedom.
This was the first time reading Alice Hoffman and I enjoyed the magical realism within the book. I also read this soon after reading House Of The Spirits by Isabel Allende which also has some magical realism. Even though the story and messages were different the enchanted way they had interwoven the supernatural with real-world problems and family situations makes these stories so interesting. I love pretty much anything with fictional or semi-real magic. I never realized that the Jewish religion has mysticism and rules about women using said mysticism. This made me want to learn more about the religion and what was true and what was false.
The World That We Knew was not a comfy cozy read, meaning there was quite a bit of darkness in what is happening in Lea and Ettie’s world. It was like plants reaching for a sun they can not see. I enjoyed it and the characters were nice to read about like the magical being Ava. I felt for Ava she had a melancholy way about her.
Any book with magic and realism is more than likely a book I would be sold on reading. I hope to read more by Hoffman and other books like this.
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Received: Free For Honest Review
Release Date: September 2019
Pages: 372
Rating:
Author’s Official Websites:
Website:
https://alicehoffman.com/
Blog:
None Found
Facebook:
https://www.facebook.com/AliceHoffmanAuthor/
Twitter:
https://twitter.com/ahoffmanwriter
Instagram:
https://www.instagram.com/ahoffmanwriter/
Shannon’s Thoughts:
During the beginning of WWII, two young girls’ futures collide. A Jewish mother plans an escape for her daughter Lea. Her mother’s heart breaks as she can not go with her daughter but she wants Lea to be protected as if she were there herself. The mother conspires with Ettie, a rabbi’s daughter, to create a mystical being named Ava to care for Lea as if she were the girl’s mother. The other girl Ettie goes in hiding preparing to fight for freedom.
This was the first time reading Alice Hoffman and I enjoyed the magical realism within the book. I also read this soon after reading House Of The Spirits by Isabel Allende which also has some magical realism. Even though the story and messages were different the enchanted way they had interwoven the supernatural with real-world problems and family situations makes these stories so interesting. I love pretty much anything with fictional or semi-real magic. I never realized that the Jewish religion has mysticism and rules about women using said mysticism. This made me want to learn more about the religion and what was true and what was false.
The World That We Knew was not a comfy cozy read, meaning there was quite a bit of darkness in what is happening in Lea and Ettie’s world. It was like plants reaching for a sun they can not see. I enjoyed it and the characters were nice to read about like the magical being Ava. I felt for Ava she had a melancholy way about her.
Any book with magic and realism is more than likely a book I would be sold on reading. I hope to read more by Hoffman and other books like this.
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