Many lifetimes, effortlessly drawn

The Size of the World By Joan Silber Norton, 322 pp., $23.95 Joan Silber, 2005 National Book Award finalist, has written a sublime and humane jigsaw puzzle of a novel. Through her wide-angled lens, she spans decades, cultures, countries, then zooms in on six characters' particularized points of view: (Full article: 849 words)

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