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Jennifer Blankfein

Miscellany

A First-Person Account as the Bombs Went Off

The following is a first-person account from BookTrib contributor Jennifer Blankfein, who was in Israel about to start a dream vacation when the first bombings occurred. “OMG, it’s under attack.” My husband Eric and I have had many dinners with close friends Wendy and Spencer. We are all Reform Jews…
Jennifer Blankfein
October 20, 2023
Miscellany

“On Color” Prompts Us To Think About What We See

David Scott Kastan, a  George M. Bodman Professor of English at Yale University and Stephen Farthing, an artist and elected member of the Royal Academy of Arts in London and Emeritus Fellow of St. Edmund Hall, the University of Oxford, have collaborated on this beautiful, and educational book about the…
Jennifer Blankfein
September 24, 2018
Fiction

Forging New Relationships and Redefining Home

This is Home (Atria Books) is the emotional story of Libby, a motherless teenage girl trying to create and define her home along with Quinn, a military wife who feels abandoned and is searching for belonging. The characters are searching for connection and the family they really want is not…
Jennifer Blankfein
June 11, 2019
Fiction

Orphan Plight in “The Home for Unwanted Girls”

Joanna Goodman's The Home for Unwanted Girls (Harper) is the compelling story of Maggie (based on the author’s mother) and her family set in 1950s Canada.  At that time orphanages were being converted to hospitals for financial benefit.  The Quebec government saved money changing the educational facilities to mental institutions, and…
Jennifer Blankfein
September 25, 2018
Fiction

“Washington Black” Paints a Fresh Slave Narrative

With history, science and creativity, Esi Edugyan’s Washington Black (Knopf) tells the story of an 11-year-old slave in Barbados and his adventurous escape to freedom.  Washington Black, or Wash, brought up in the sugar cane fields, experienced more than his share of oppression, suffering and abuse. When the slave master's brother,…
Jennifer Blankfein
November 12, 2018