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Ruth Puttermesser, 34 when this book begins, is aptly named, for puttermesser means butterknife, a word that indicates the contradictory side Oddly, the last book of fiction I finished (, If Rose, Blanche, Dorothea and Sophia had an extra spare, somewhere in the back of their Miami bungalow, Cynthia Ozick could've been the fifth Golden Girl. Ozick's prose can be so chewy and dense; it can also be purely lovely: This book inspired me to read Ozick's criticism, which, like the stories in this volume, are exquisitely written. 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