Jim Shepard Archives - The Gilmore Guide to Books https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/reviews/authors/jim-shepard/ Connecting Books and Readers One Review at a Time Sun, 03 Feb 2019 00:36:27 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/cropped-books-on-table-2-150x150.jpg Jim Shepard Archives - The Gilmore Guide to Books https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/reviews/authors/jim-shepard/ 32 32 38398750 The Book of Aron https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2015/05/the-book-of-aron/ https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2015/05/the-book-of-aron/#comments Mon, 04 May 2015 07:10:57 +0000 http://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/?p=3976 Set in a Jewish ghetto in Nazi-occupied Poland The Book of Aron is, like any Holocaust novel, difficult reading. But what makes it so, is not graphic depictions of violence against Jews it is the interminable grind of life lived in circumstances that have nowhere to go but down. At first, it is simply that […]

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