Queen Esther tells the compassionate and generous story of Jimmy Winslow, whose life intertwines with that of Esther Nacht, a Jewish girl born in Vienna in 1905. She emigrates with her parents at age three, but after her father dies in transit and her mother is murdered in Portland, Maine, she's abducted and taken to an orphanage before arriving at Jimmy's grandparent's household as a teenager, to act as an au pair for the daughter they're expecting.
For anyone who's followed John Irving's nearly six-decade-long literary career, settling into another of his novels feels like stepping into a beloved pair of slippers. But as he demonstrates in Queen Esther, that sense of homecoming shouldn't distract readers from the insight and empathy that consistently have characterized his work, including this tenderhearted bildungsroman about a writer whose life, not surprisingly, bears some similarity to Irving's own.
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