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Sad Review

In Kate Ledger’s acclaimed novel “Remedies” (reviewed in the Oct. 2 issue) the main character, a doctor, has seen his professional and family life fall apart. Although an indifferent, unobservant Jew, at his low point he reaches up to seek the ultimate remedy for his troubles in a beautifully written scene in a synagogue on Yom Kippur.

But your reviewer thinks that his turn “to religion for solace and strength, hardly rings true.” How odd and sad. One would least expect a review in the JEWISH TIMES to disparate the redemptive power of religion.

Reading the words of the Amidah, “Open thou my lips,” the fallen man opens his mind and heart to new possibilities of repairing the harm he has done to his family and himself.

It’s a message that all of us in the Jewish community should take to heart, and it’s at the essence of an insightful and inspiring novel.

Myra and Buzzy Hettleman
Baltimore