I have just finished this book and I am glad I persevered with it as I enjoyed the story in the end but I couldn't really take to any of the characters. I agree with Ruth about Claudia Rubin being a dislikeable and selfish character, in fact they were all pretty selfish and dislikeable. I couldn't believe how self absorbed they all were and how childish and nasty Claudias grown up children were. Maybe I needed to understand Jewish culture to feel any empathy with the Rubin family, the glossary certainly helped me with the Jewish words.
Good story though.