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In the bestselling tradition of The Red Tent, The Family Orchard is a spellbinding novel of one unforgettable family, the orchard they've tended for generations, and a love story that transcends the ages.
Nomi Eve's lavishly imagined account begins in Palestine in 1837, with the tale of the irrepressible family matriach, Esther, who was lured by the smell of baking bread into an affair with the local baker. Esther passes on her passionate nature to her son, Eliezer, whose love for the forbidden Golda threatened to tear the family apart. And to her granddaughter, Avra the thief, a tiny wisp of a girl who thumbed her nose at her elders by swiping precious stones from the local bazaar-and grew to marry a man she met at the scene of a crime. At once epic and intimate, The Family Orchard is a rich historical tapestry of passion and tradition from a storyteller of beguiling power.
Nomi Eve's lavishly imagined account begins in Palestine in 1837, with the tale of the irrepressible family matriach, Esther, who was lured by the smell of baking bread into an affair with the local baker. Esther passes on her passionate nature to her son, Eliezer, whose love for the forbidden Golda threatened to tear the family apart. And to her granddaughter, Avra the thief, a tiny wisp of a girl who thumbed her nose at her elders by swiping precious stones from the local bazaar-and grew to marry a man she met at the scene of a crime. At once epic and intimate, The Family Orchard is a rich historical tapestry of passion and tradition from a storyteller of beguiling power.
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Olivia
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Reggie McKinney
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Trevor Arrowood
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“This book felt overly descriptive at times. The language was flourishing, but it felt like it was making up for the lack of connection the story has. It is a collection of stories of a family’s history, but although the family is the author’s family, the stories are piecemealed. The best parts come when Nomi writes about her father and grandfather (especially her father). These moments explode with grief and tumult that pushed this book to a 6.5-7/10”
Ashley Smith
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Lara Maynard
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“Stars:
Stars for the overall concept, for being creative with the structure of narratives, plus illustrations, for trying to go for gusto with language, and for some stellar sentences and stories within this family-tree-comes-alive-in-novel form. Here's an example of those fine sentences:
https://twitter.com/maynardlara/status/714101806910083073
Cons:
I get what Eve was going for in the writing style, but the metaphors are sometimes stretched too long and there is a fair bit of overwriting in general.
Because the book covers a whole family tree, it tells just telling a bit or a sort of summary story about each generation. In some instances this is a little unsatisfying.
The final parts of the book, where the author writes/tells about her own romantic relationship were the weakest. Having to use her imagination to flesh out her ancestors seems to have nourished stronger writing elsewhere in the book, which happens to tie in with the book's exploration of history, truth, legend and fiction very well, if certainly unintentionally.
I'd read more from Nomi Eve. Her latest novel, Henna House, is on my TBR.”
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