When the book begins Pippa is in her fifties. She’s one of those well-to-do perfect housewife types that everyone simply adores. She’s been married to Herb, thirty years her senior, for thirty or so years and they are the parents of grown up twins. Life is idyllic with a beach house and everything. ...
Funny and frank observations of 21st century American life from an 18th century Parisian street vendor reincarnated as a fly. Enjoyable! Jacob Cerf aka Gebeck aka Le Naif died in 1773 Paris. Imagine his surprise when he finds himself reincarnated as a common housefly in 21st Century Long Island! H...
What would happen if reincarnated souls influenced our lives without our knowledge? What if one of those souls was a fly, and that fly remembers his past life 300 years ago? Find out in my revised review of "Jacob's Folly" by Rebecca Miller, here. https://tcl-bookreviews.com/2015/06/13/a-literal-fly...
Review for Historical Novel Society to be posted after August issue.
I adored this creative, page-turning and moving story of a dead French Jewish peddler come back to life as a fly in modern day Long Island and the influence he has on inveterate goody-two-shoes Les and struggling Orthodox Jew Masha. This book deserves to be a big hit with lots of readers. http://www...
I thought this book had a lot of potential, but it wasn't quite laid out in the best way. I would have preferred it to be set out more chronogically rather than having what felt like a very out of place section in the middle. I enjoyed Pippa's early years a lot more, and thought that part of the boo...
Rebecca Miller's The Private Lives of Pippa Lee has mixed reviews here, and having just finished it over the course of the weekend, I think it makes sense; it's probably not a book that would -- or probably should -- appeal to everyone.Pippa Lee is the much-younger wife of publisher Herb Lee. When t...
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