This page works best with JavaScript. Although no one is persecuting them at the moment, the rapidly growing Jewish community on St. Thomas tries to keep a low profile to ensure that things stay that way.
Excellent historical fiction about St Thomas, Virgin Islands and the immigration and settlement of the small but powerful Jewish community.

With June Allyson, Joan Collins, Dolores Gray, Ann Sheridan.

It is what I call a "down home" movie. I know it is in my top ten all time favorites. Although Hoffman’s white characters explicitly (and sometimes tendentiously) stand up for equality and the rights of women, slaves, and the working class, these tired stereotypes of black women (see: “Gone with the Wind,” “The Help,” et al) do little justice to those principles.“The Marriage of Opposites” can feel stylistically tired as well. She soon added history to the mix, taking her patented brand of women back in time and across generations.

Maybe because they were suppressed? Discuss the different manifestations of family in this novel.

Compelling enough to want that kind of love between friendships/ parent - child/ and true soul love.What a strange book. Full access is for members only.BookBrowse seeks out and recommends the best in contemporary fiction and nonfiction—books that not only engage and entertain but also deepen our understanding of ourselves and the world around us.Subscribe to receive some of our best reviews, "beyond the book" articles, book club info, and giveaways by email.

According to my mother, this had been my response to life ever since my birth, for it took three days for me to arrive in the world. Rebecca Steinitz is the author of “Time, Space, and Gender in the Nineteenth-Century British Diary.” Alice Hoffman’s 2015 novel, The Marriage of Opposites, is a work of historical fiction with magical realism and romance elements. Lots of discussion of color as some of the characters are artists. Once all the story lines were wrapped up the book should have stopped, but for some reason it kept going and going and I started to loose interest. If you enjoy historical fiction - read this book! almost put it down a few times. August 29th 2015 The Marriage of Opposites Alice Hoffman, 2015 Simon & Schuster 400 pp. The most successful people are those who are good at plan B Loved it!Unpredictably engaging read! Many characters, both male and female, have illegitimate children who are unacknowledged, abandoned, or cast off. Non-members are limited to two results. I like Doves Keeper and I like The Marriage of Opposites.Historical fiction. As a child I did not sleep through the night, and I certainly didn't follow any rules.
If you enjoy Caribbean historical fiction - read this book!! Always fascinated by authors who can analyse the psyche of a female character at so many levels...and keep her real. Over the course of these events, Rachel evolves from rebel to oppressor, as the novel’s conflicts and relationships repeat themselves across new generations.In an afterword, Hoffman notes that while “Rachel Pizzarro’s life in my imagined story mirrors the known facts about her as closely as possible . Please shorten your comment and try again.A problem occurred while submitting your comment. The unusual family of French Impressionist master Jacob Abraham Camille Pizzarro takes center stage in The unusual family of French Impressionist master Jacob Abraham Camille Pizzarro takes center stage in Rachel longs for Paris although her grandparents long ago fled France for St. Thomas, an island in what is now the US Virgin Islands, where Jews could be citizens. Simon & Schuster, 384 pp., $27.99. The first 75% was good, I loved the vivid imagery of St. John's and the insight to the Jewish faith (who knew there was a Jewish community on St. John's in the the 1800's?). Let us know what’s wrong with this preview of She then falls scandalously in love with her husband’s nephew, with wshom she has a disputed marriage and more children, including Camille, before battling her way back to respectability.


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