The Grammarians, by Cathleen Schine (2019)
The Grammarians is a novel about a set of identical twins, Laurel and Daphne Wolfe, who were obsessed with words and the English language. Their favorite book as a child is an old dictionary, which they pore over intently.
As children, they are inseparable, but as they grow up, the language that was the glue that kept them together, becomes the cause of their separation.
I didn’t care for the characters and their mundane lives.
This book was recommended by one of my book groups that focuses on Jewish-themed books. This was billed as describing growing up in a middle-class Jewish family from the 1950s to present. There was virtually no Jewish content to this novel.
Read: November 8, 2019
2 Stars
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