Book description
Even as a child in 1910, Sara Glikman knows her gift: she is a maker of matches and a seeker of soulmates. But among the pushcart-crowded streets of New York's Lower East Side, Sara's vocation is dominated by devout older men-men who see a talented female matchmaker as a dangerous…
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1 author picked The Matchmaker's Gift as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
I loved this and really looked forward to reading it in the evenings. It's a cross between Isaac Bashevis Singer and chick lit.
The two main characters are a grandmother who was a matchmaker on the Lower East Side a hundred years ago and a granddaughter who's a divorce lawyer in modern-day New York. The book takes place in both time periods. It’s a meditation on love and marriage in which everything comes out well in the end, and all the characters we're rooting for meet their “beshert,” their destined one.
My younger son has a theory that…
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