Second Hand Smoke: A Novel Review

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(More customer reviews)I often find Holocaust material very painful and I feel like I know "enough." Like most Jews, the Holocaust is too engraved in my psyche. Still, in "Second Hand Smoke," - which I only bought and read because I saw Thane speak at a book talk and I was truly impressed - Rosenbaum defines the Holocaust's impact on the next generation - the children of survivors. Like Frazier's "Cold Mountain" which paints the Civil War without a single battle, "Second Hand Smoke" avoids the camps but captures the horror.
This is a brilliant novel. It is structually perfect, it swims in metaphor, it dances through time, it's funny, and it hurts. I am grateful that Rosenbaum took me to a place that I didn't necessarily want to be. I feel wiser.
"Second Hand Smoke" moves. No preaching. No indulging. Just raw, honest story telling. A great read!

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