Book Club at Adath Jeshurun

The AJ book club will meet at Adath Jeshurun, 2401 Woodbourne Avenue, in the Roth Family boardroom to discuss “Kaaterskill Falls” by Allegra Goodman.

“The opening sections of Allegra Goodman’s eloquent first novel, “Kaaterskill Falls,” suggest a Shakespearean comedy of manners: There are allusions to backdrop — a bucolic New York village in the Catskills — is one of those magical green places where confusions can be resolved and transformations effected…The tension between tradition and change, familial responsibility and personal autonomy, continuity and flux provides the motor for her narrative. In fact, her main characters divide into pairs of traditionalists and rebels, ideologues and iconoclasts.” Excerpted from “Kaaterskill Falls’: Debut of Gifted Novelist by Michiko Kakutani in Books of the Times, 1998.

For more information contact Deborah Slosberg at dslosberg@adathjeshurun.com or 458-5359.