Review: Incredible Story
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 04 10, 2014
The writing and formatting are rough, but the story is riveting. A pair of orphaned young brothers were sent to London to be reared by their grandparents in a poor Jewish neighborhood. Despite family assistance, the grandparents are unable to cope and permit the younger boy to be adopted by an affluent Jewish family. Initially, the boys remain connected, but gradually the younger refuses contact and asks his adoption to be kept secret. His brother attempts contact over the years and is repeatedly shunned. Finally, they meet accidentally after decades, now old men. The younger still desires no contact. The grandson, the writer, shares an interesting account of how he melded much fact with a little fiction for narrative purposes. This is a story where content triumphs over the annoying formatting and some non-lyrical prose.