The Imposter Bride

from janismack

I was expecting more from this book, I sometimes asked myself what was the point. If the author was trying to make her audience understand what Jewish survivors felt and lived after the war, I think I totally missed the point. On a positive note it was nicely written.

from lansum

This book made me imagine that author Nancy Richler, who writes beautiful prose, went to a writer's workshop one day and was asked to write something about a child being abandoned by a parent. When she submitted the original, the story of Ruth and her mother Lily, the instructor was rightly impre...

from lit_chick

"She could find nothing in her present world to match her interior life ..." (161) Post WWII, a young Jewish woman, Lily Azerov, travels from Poland to Tel Aviv and eventually to Montreal, Canada, where she has prearranged to marry Sol Kramer. But Sol, to his almost immediate regret, rejects Lily...

from LynnB

I loved this compelling story about identity: who we are, where we come from, and how that affects the choices we make and the people who care about us. Lily Azerov arrives in Montreal to marry a man she's never met -- a man who rejects her on sight. But, Lily isn't really who she claims to be, a...

from whitreidtan

If your life, your very identity, is a lie, can you live hiding your true self forever? Or would you eventually have to leave the life you'd built on that false foundation no matter what the consequences for you or those left behind? In Nancy Richler's The Imposter Bride, this question, tied to q...