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A Review of Ron Singer's |
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In a little chapbook published by Waterways / Ten Penny Players (Barbara Fisher and Richard Spiegel), I enjoyed the way Ron Singer, a middle-aged school teacher at Friends Seminary in New York City, looks for his departed grandmother. A quiet, almost silent woman he imagines, and supposes her, long after death, in other women, in the shadows of a kitchen window, in a pair of colorless shoes and especially in an apple pie maker. Singer explores the light, texture and flavors of this grandmother in plain prose and straightforward honesty, weaving a sweet and slightly sour account of a Jewish family in the years when life could be much more closely defined. |
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