God's Ear by Rhoda Lerman | First Edition

'God's Ear is by turns playful and prayerful, ironic and deadly serious. Although her idioms and inflections are hauntingly, soothingly familiar, the common linguistic property of generations of Jewish fabulists - Stanley Elkin, Cynthia Ozick, Bernard Malamud, Sholem Aliechem, Isaac Babel Mrs. Lerman speaks in her own vatic voice..wildly funny, achingly spiritual, profoundly Jewish and feminist at the same time.' -The New York Times Book Review