Ian Thal:
26 Jul. 2023
“
"Birdie and Cait and the Book of Life" has a wonderful sense of place both geographically and spiritually whether in a New York apartment, a Jewish cemetery in London, or the timeless, mystical Library of the Jewish Soul. Lang draws upon the poetry both of the Jewish liturgy and of of the 19th British-Jewish poet Amy Levy to to illuminate the and repair the broken world of her characters. ”