Goy Crazy (review)
2006; Johns Hopkins University Press; Volume: 60; Issue: 3 Linguagem: Inglês
10.1353/bcc.2006.0758
ISSN1558-6766
Autores Tópico(s)Themes in Literature Analysis
ResumoReviewed by: Goy Crazy Karen Coats Schorr, Melissa Goy Crazy. Hyperion, 2006344p ISBN 0-7868-3852-3$15.99 R Gr. 7-10 Rachel Lowenstein lives in a world of trumped-up expectations. She's got the typical high-school blues of trying to figure out how to break in to the So Very clique, but hers are complicated by the fact that she is Jewish, and though her family isn't really into the whole Orthodox thing, they play by at least some of the rules, leaving her to wonder how far she can push the limits. More than anything, she craves some really interesting sin in her life to repent of during the High Holidays, but alas, she is stuck in good-girl mode, at least until she spies Luke Christiansen of the New Testament name and the Catholic school pedigree. Smitten, she ignores her bubbe's warning to stay away from the goyim and begins dating the delectable Luke, even though he turns out to be a depressingly bad kisser. Meanwhile, she continues her feud with the good Jewish boy next door, who has somehow developed a hot bod that makes him not only acceptable to Jewish mothers everywhere, but to their daughters as well. Rachel's critiques of high school (including a hilarious diatribe against Title IX), Judaism, and boy/girl relationships are chock full of laugh-out-loud [End Page 144] irreverence as she stresses her way through adolescence under the influence of a faith that "encourages agitation." Her obsession over her parent's imaginary reaction to her goyfriend is soundly deflated by her mother's common-sense reaction, but her comically overblown hysteria to that point keeps pages turning for every girl who's ever wanted an off-limits boy. Copyright © 2006 The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois
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