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Grumpy might have been safer. Old Country Jews believed that acknowledging good fortune would attract an evil eye, a kineahora. Roth brings this useful superstition home when, as a teenager, the Merry Levov contracts a lethal case of '60s political self-righteousness. She blows up the town's general store-post office, killing a passerby, and then vanishes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BOOKS: WHEN SHE WAS BAD | 4/28/1997 | See Source »

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