Rebecca's Reviews > The Goddess of Small Victories

What I truly appreciated is the blend of fact and fiction that yielded a sense of time and place...Princeton University in the middle two decades of the twentieth century. There would be great meat for a book club discussion on the nature of genius and the trade offs it begets. I found it interesting that this book was translated into rather than written in English because it captures the American immigrant intellectual experience so genuinely, balancing the gratitude for a safe haven with the suspicion of the price to be paid. I did not expect that I would like the book as much as I did.