People of the Book

Excellent read.

As i write this review it was a very weird week in the world. There is a school board in Tennessee that banned the book Maus which is about the holocaust in WWII. It was also Holocaust Remembrance Day this week. I did not know when I picked up this book it was about anti-semitism through the ages. As a novel it is not overly dramatic in that sense but it does bring about what has happened in the past.
The author writes in the novel “That to be a human being matters more than to be a Jew or a Muslim, Catholic or Orthodox.” I feel this is the heart of the book. It is a book about being a human and treating everyone with respect.
Another reason I loved the book is that I am one of those people who go into museums and think about the person who made an item and how it was used. Just trying to imagine what the item meant to people even if it was just a tool. I feel that in this book. It is the story of a book and the people who lived around the book. Very imaginative and full of life.
I cannot recommend this book enough.