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The novel’s paperback edition has an interview with Alice Hoffman in which she cites mother superior (Sister Marie) as the character that moved her the most. Write a character study of this figure (Chapter 18) as a heroic presence determined to do right in a world of evil.
In the book’s title, who is the “we” and what is the “world”? Does the title express regret? Nostalgia? Or does it imply that the work is a commentary on the Nazi era that defined a generation of Jewish faithful?
By Alice Hoffman
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