[Yale-readings] Cynthia Ozick Reading @ Slifka Center Thursday, Jan. 20 4-6pm

[Nancy Kuhl]

Cynthia Ozick
Heir To The Glimmering World: A Novel, Author Reading
Thursday, Jan. 20  4-6pm
Slifka Center, 80 Wall Street
Contact: joshua.gross at yale.edu


The words that Cynthia Ozick commits to paper have the power to cross
over ethnic and religious lines and speak to people in a language they
both marvel at and understand. Normally recalcitrant critics have been
moved to sing her praises. John Sutherland of the New York Times has
written, “Cynthia Ozick is, for my money, the most accomplished and
graceful literary stylist of our time.”

In Ms. Ozick’s latest book, “Heir to the Glimmering World: A Novel,” she
continues to ask challenging questions about what it means to belong,
and considers the extent that who we are determines what we do. The
narrator of this character driven, depression-era tale is Rose Meadows,
a resolute 18-year-old orphan. Virtually abandoned, Rose wanders into a
job with the Mitwisser family, German refugees in New York City. Filling
gaping holes in their household, Rose becomes a research assistant to
the father, a nurse to his oft-deranged, sequestered wife; and nanny to
their five children. With her trademark lyrical prose, gentle humor and
vivid imagery, Ozick paints a textured portrait of outsiders rendered
powerless, retreating into tightly coiled existences of scholarly
rapture, guarded brazenness and even calculated lunacy­all as a means of
refuting the bleakness of a harsh, chaotic world.

As Jews celebrate their 350th anniversary in America this year, Cynthia
Ozick is the ideal writer to turn to, as her entire body of work has
embodied the strains, the sacrifices, the wonderment and the triumphs of
the American experience.


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