Casting Lots
by Susan Silverman
1/5 stars
⭐
Casting Lots is written by Rabbi Susan Silverman who has 3 biological daughters and then adopts 2 sons from Ethiopia. It is the story of how she builds her family, and her "faith journey" I guess.
I really did not care for this book at all, and honestly would not have finished it, except one of my book groups is doing it.
I found the storytelling to be so disjointed, and I can understand that, because really being a Mom of 5 kids, who has time to do anything, much less write a book? I suppose she followed the path that she felt was most important to her, and I can respect that people change what they think they want, but as a book, this just wasn't successful for me.
It was just the main character cooing over her adoptive son, and perseverating about how to convert him properly, and then after going on about that for like 3 chapters, she never even says why they changed their mind, from one faction to another, or how they ended up. It just was all over the place. I felt like the biological kids got short shrift in the story and it made me wonder if they did in real life too. Although they were supposedly "modern, reform" Jews, maybe this was why they needed to adopt boys, because they were so much more valued than their girls?
It just was not a satisfying read for me. I can't really recommend this book.
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