“When you weep, the one you are meant for tastes the salt of your tears.“-, Lynda Cohen Loigman, The Matchmaker’s Gift
From the time she was a child, Sara Glikman knows she has a gift for matchmaking, but the official matchmakers–older, Jewish men are not about to let her take any of their business. After practicing in secret for over a decade, Sara must fight tradition and culture to take her place in the calling she loves.
Sara’s granddaughter, Abby, is a successful Manhattan divorce attorney who inherits Sara’s journals after her death. As Abby reads the journals, she becomes more and more perplexed. Why did her grandmother leave the journals to her? Did her grandmother think Abby was also a matchmaker and if so, how does that work with her career as a divorce attorney?
I enjoyed this book and found the description of matchmaking in the Jewish community fascinating. The characters are well drawn– you cheer for Sara and hope for Abby, along with being reminded of love’s sweetness and importance.
Content Advisory: Some language, domestic abuse, misogyny