Instaread Summary, Analysis & Review of Lynda
Cohen Loigman’s The Two-Family House
Four out of five stars
This novel is
based on a premise that has been used several times, although in this case it
is not an accidental switch of babies in a hospital, but a deliberate one
carried out by their mothers. Abe and Mort are brothers and their wives are Helen
and Rose respectively. The two families share a two-family house in Brooklyn,
New York and they are Jewish. Abe and Mort are also business partners.
The swapping of
newborns takes place right after nearly simultaneous home births and is based
on the desire of Mort to have a son after three daughters. Given that there are
fundamental resentments between Abe and Mort, there is a good deal of room for
difficulties.
However, from
this summary, the novel just does not come across as being significantly
interesting. The time context starts in 1947 at the bar mitzvah of Harry’s son
and continues through 1970. It was a time of enormous social change in the
United States, yet little of that seems to seep into the story. Most of the
problems described in the summary are predictable, including two of the people
falling in love but being unable to act on it because of their belief that they
are cousins. Many of the difficulties between the four primary adults are also
routine and are not described as being
all that capable of grabbing your focus.
From the
summary, it was clear that I have no interest in this novel. That makes it a
good summary.
https://www.amazon.com/Summary-Analysis-Loigman’s-Two-Family-Instaread-ebook/dp/B01M2X6I7L
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