Book #104 of 2019: The Dovekeepers by Alice Hoffman An elegant and immersive feat of first-century storytelling, culminating in the mytho-historic slaughter at Masada where Jewish resistance fighters reportedly killed themselves rather than falling to their Roman besiegers. That’s a difficult topic for any writer to approach, but Alice Hoffman paints it as a proper …
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