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As a former history teacher, I appreciate well-researched historical fiction. Since so many readers rely on Gone with the Wind as their template for slave owners, it's refreshing to find a book with multi-faceted
characters among the planter class, the slaves, and non slaveholding whites. In addition, to discover a book that
embeds the particular dilemma for Jewish slaveholders is a true find. In Sabra Waldfogel's novel, history does not trump the story line and the rhythm of the book. She is able to contextualize the story with a newspaper reference or a tidbit of gossip heard in town. If you are knowledgable about the Civil War battles, you'll be able to track the
course of the war through Henry's letters home to Rachel. The characters in the book are faced with the dilemmas of survival like every southern family during the Civil War but they also confront ethical dilemmas. We are privy to their deliberations and their thought process without any anachronistic rationales seeping into their 19th century minds.
Jew or Christian, black or white, northerner or southerner, male or female--any reader will close this book with not just more knowledge, but with greater understanding of the chaos and traumas engendered by slavery in the US.


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Sister of Mine A Novel edition by Sabra Waldfogel Literature Fiction eBooks Reviews

This book is a mess. The author has researched Jewish chattel slave owners in the US but does not seem to have studied slavery from the pov of the enslaved.
The characters don't behave in realistic ways. This feels like white guilt wrote a book.
I was a bit skeptical about the read initially because I am a southern born and raised descendant of slaves. I wasn't sure if the text would properly convey the history in a respectful manner. Many applause to the author for her not only tasteful, but well presented approach in this literary piece. Each character develops so well and it represented in good fashion throughout the text. Every course of the story moves like music and proper attention is given to areas that require most development. This is an awesome read and a beautiful beginning to a talented author's career. It's so difficult to demonstrate fluent knowledge for history and present it in fashion that is true and honorary and she has done an AMAZING JOB at it!
This will be one of my favorites for the year. A Goodreads friend recommended it to me. She said it was a self published book, and hadn't been advertised. The story is of 2 sisters, both daughters of the Master of a cotton plantation. One born to the mistress of the house, the other to a slave. The owners of the plantation are Jewish, and the story explores slavery in Egypt to slavery in the south. It's a beautiful tale of love and hardship, one that creates characters with depth. If you enjoyed The Kitchen House or The Invention Of Wings, you'll want to read this!
This is a powerful, fast-paced story of plantation life in Georgia around the time of the Civil War. It is well-researched and highly detailed. The central characters are complex and fully developed. There are several “Whoa! I didn’t see that coming” moments, but, on reflection, the reader sees that these pieces of the plot were very carefully crafted and fit neatly into place.

The novel deals with the unrelenting brutality of slavery. There are certainly references to beatings, mutilations and rapes, but the focus here is on the ordinary lives of people – black and white – who lived through these times and were shaped by them. Families, children, lovers, soldiers, slaves and slave owners, merchants and poor farmers all play their roles here.

The fact that several of the main characters are German Jews who became slave owners adds a fascinating sub-text to the story.

At the end of this wonderful read, the thought comes “Is this plausible? Would people living in such circumstances at that time, in rural Georgia, really act like this?” If those questions arise, it may be useful to remember that reality is not always determined by what is plausible.
I would have given the first part of this book five stars and the last part one or two. The beginning of the book depicts the horrors of slavery especially for women in a powerful way. The storyline is engrossing and the relationship between the two sisters is not badly done. As we get closer to the ending the novel becomes increasingly unrealistic.
>SPOILERS<
By the end of the novel many of the main characters have reconciled to the end of slavery. People who saw blacks as inferior now see them as equals. A school is set up in which black and white children learn together. No problems with this in the Deep South? The white sister Adelaide completely accepts her black sister Rachel’s relationship with Adelaide’s husband Henry. No more anger or jealousy. Henry, Rachel, and their child plan to move to Atlanta. Everyone expects this to all work out. Somehow. And Charlie, the brilliant ex-slave who ran the plantation during the war turns down Henry’s offer to give him land. No way, he says, he has to buy it. Only fair. What about the fact that Charlie worked for NOTHING as a slave for years. Why doesn’t he see this proposed gift of land as a partial payment for his forced labor? It just doesn’t make sense. Frankly, the whole saccharine ending doesn’t make sense. Not only are there unanswered questions, but so many 19th century characters with 21st century progressive attitudes is not believable.
As a former history teacher, I appreciate well-researched historical fiction. Since so many readers rely on Gone with the Wind as their template for slave owners, it's refreshing to find a book with multi-faceted
characters among the planter class, the slaves, and non slaveholding whites. In addition, to discover a book that
embeds the particular dilemma for Jewish slaveholders is a true find. In Sabra Waldfogel's novel, history does not trump the story line and the rhythm of the book. She is able to contextualize the story with a newspaper reference or a tidbit of gossip heard in town. If you are knowledgable about the Civil War battles, you'll be able to track the
course of the war through Henry's letters home to Rachel. The characters in the book are faced with the dilemmas of survival like every southern family during the Civil War but they also confront ethical dilemmas. We are privy to their deliberations and their thought process without any anachronistic rationales seeping into their 19th century minds.
Jew or Christian, black or white, northerner or southerner, male or female--any reader will close this book with not just more knowledge, but with greater understanding of the chaos and traumas engendered by slavery in the US.