He is closer to her than he is to his father, and his love for her is powerful: He spends a lot of his time struggling to make them happy, his mother in particular. He's eager to please and adoring of his parents. Isn't that what Gwyneth Paltrow named her kid? Asher the Sonīefore becoming a great painter, Asher is a kid just like any other: the son of two loving and sometimes annoying parents. This book is basically the story of how Asher comes into his own as an artist, and just in case you were wondering-yes, there's a fancy German word for that: bildungsroman. Asher is introspective and incredibly sensitive: he loves his parents-his mother especially-and struggles with the fact that his artistic talent hurts them so much. Asher Lev is the star of this production: tortured child artist who grows up to paint probably the most offensive and sacrilegious painting any Ladover Hasid has laid eyes on.
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