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Review: ‘One Good Thing’

JL;DR SUMMARY In "One Good Thing," Georgia Hunter shifts her focus from her family's Holocaust experience in Poland to the plight of Italian Jews during World War II. A way out west there was a fella, fella I want to tell you about, fella by the name of Jeff Lebowski. At least, that was the handle his lovin' parents gave him, but he never had much use for it himself. This Lebowski, he called himself the Dude. Now, Dude, that's a name no one would self-apply where I come from. But then, there was a lot about the Dude that didn't make a whole lot of sense to me. And a lot about where he lived, likewise. But then again, maybe that's why I found the place s'durned innarestin'.

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HolocaustWorld War IiJewsCatholic ChurchMotherhoodCourageSurvivalHistorical FictionItalyGeorgia Hunter

Places mentioned

Ferrara, Italy
"The novel then takes readers back in time to 1940 in Ferrara, northern Italy, to the day Lilis best friend, Esti, gives birth to her son, Theo."
Bologna, Italy
"Lili is from Bologna; Esti and her husband, Niko, who is also Jewish, are from Greece."
Florence, Italy
"follows her friend, first to a shelter for Jewish refugee children from Eastern Europe and then to Florence, where the forgery network operates."
Rome, Italy
"The arduous journey to Rome involves trains, bicycles and weeks on foot."
Greece
"Esti and her husband, Niko, who is also Jewish, are from Greece."
Connecticut, United States
"Elizabeth Edelglass is a fiction writer, poet and book reviewer living in Connecticut."

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