A case history of conversion?
G B Stern's Rakonitz Chronicles are a droll entry into a large vibrant multi-generational cosmopolitan Jewish clan. Virago has republished the first two books in the series, originally published in the 1920's. A fun read, offering a view of Anglo-Jewish competent women innocent of what happened in the 1930's. So I thought this late work by G B Stern, written as a recent convert to Catholicism, would be interesting. Well, I couldn't quite finish it. It's embarrassing to follow such neurotic self-indulgent 'confessions' of a would-be saint who keeps telling us how far she is from sainthood... But it does throw some surprising illumination backwards on what she achieved in the 1920's in the fictionalized 'chronicle' of her ancestral clan.
