Today I read a book that felt like it was a cross between a historical novel and a rom-com. It was a fun entertaining story that kept me entertained until the end.
The Matchmaker's Gift written by Lynda Cohen Loigman definitely fits the criteria for the historical fiction genre, but because you are reading about matchmaking and love it reads like a rom com.
Using the dual timeline approach to writing this novel, Loigman follows Sara Glikman as she comes from Europe to the Lower Eastside of the New York. Arriving with her family in New York City as a young girl, Sara has already shown her matchmaking abilities on the boat creating a shidduch for her older sister. As she grows up she finds creative ways to bring together the couples she knows will love each other and stayed married forever. This causes problems in the neighborhood as it takes away business from the Shadchanim. These older men try to stop her but Sara is a strong young woman and stands up to them.
In the alternating plot line we meet Sara's granddaughter, Abby, starts reading the journals her grandmother left her. Abby and her sister grew up with Sara and their mother, Beverly. They are the product of an ugly divorce and Abby becomes a divorce lawyer to help women going through divorce not have the same experience her mother had. Growing with her grandmother's stories, she never really paid attention. Now as she reads through the accounts of the matches, she begins to question whether instead of helping couples end their marriages, she should be helping couples find true love.
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