Winter Journey
Fourth Estate, $29.95 pb, 432 pp
Fiction
Tilting towards the Op-Ed
by Michelle Griffin •
Diane Armstrong should have stuck to the facts. The many surprising particulars that illuminated her two fine histories of the Jewish refugee experience (Mosaic: A Chronicle of Five Generations, 1998, and The Voyage of Their Life, 1999) have been replaced, in her first novel, by clichés and banalities that turn to soap opera her account of an Australian forensic scientist unearthing the secrets of her own past.
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