One of those bright, eye-catching things that come in small packages–Allegra Maud Goldman is a charming nudzh. Notice her. –
Kirkus Allegra Maud Goldman is one of those rare delights, a novel of childhood. . . that is as wise and true as it is funny. . . There is probably something for everybody in this short, funny book that had me laughing and crying to the last page. –
Ms. magazine One of the rare and precious portraits of the artist as a young girl.
–Tillie Olsen I remember reading
Allegra Maud Goldman as a child. And I remember thinking even then that the novel was unusual for its mordant wit and unsentimental perspective on the Jewish family and Jewish girlhood. As only the best novels and memoirs do, this book brings to life a vanished time and place. –
Allegra Goodman Allegra Maud Goldman is the epitome of a certain kind of precocity. Edith Konecky has the uncanny facility of making us feel we've been where Allegra is–and so we have, alas. –
Lynne Sharon Schwartz
