Sunday, September 4, 2011  The Little Bride - A Novel by Anna
Solomon  The Little Bride: A Novel. Anna Solomon. Penguin Group
(USA). September 2011. 320 pp. paperback. ISBN #: 9781594485350.
Minna Losk has experienced much suffering by the time she's 16
years old. Her mother abandoned her father and her, and her
father lives a tortured life between forgetting and memories
that affect Minna until she lives her entire life surviving
loss. Things are not much better after her father dies and she
is shipped off to relatives and then a family who present as
haunting, dysfunctional, and even mentally ill people. Her job
is to be a serving girl. But lest one judge too quickly, these
are Jewish people who live through the late 1800s pogroms in
Odessa and other Russian towns. Waiting to be brutally attacked
day after day after day could stretch any one's sanity to the
limit!  Then Minna has the opportunity to become an American
bride to an unknown man South Dakota. The journey overseas to
her new home is fraught with