5/22/2023 0 Comments The second mango by shira glassman![]() ![]() Nesbit – though admittedly Nesbit is more likely to preach Socialism than religion) but it influences the characters’ speech, their acts, and the holidays they celebrate.Īnd there is sex it’s not explicit but it’s unmistakeable. The world and the characters are Jewish in approximately the way most kids’ books from Victorian times through about the mid-1960s are Christian there’s no preaching (much less than in, say, Little Women or E. There’s the sort of food intolerances that you can name in five people you know IRL and no one you know in a book. There’s an older male hero who doesn’t look like a twenty-year-old model. There’s a dragon and a wizard, a quest and lots of character development. ![]() There is also romance in the book, both same-sex and opposite sex. So instead I will tell you that it has a gay woman and a straight woman who are friends. I don’t agree with the book’s blurb entirely (the engaging parts are accurate it’s just wrong in spots). The book is The Second Mango, by Shira Glassman, published by Prizm Books. I think I know who might be, though at least I can offer some parameters. ![]() This is not going to be a review, but rather a comment I liked it OK but I’m not the right audience to fall in love with it. ![]() A friend of mine had a book published last week. ![]()
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