April 17, 1928

Cynthia Ozick (born April 17, 1928) is an awarding winning American novelist, Her most recent prize was the 2008 PEN/Nabokov. Her first novel, Trust (1966 ) features a cat metaphor when the heroine licks her own tears, "like a cat," tears shed when she tells her boyfriend she thinks she is pregnant.  I don't get the picture here, with the cat. 

We read in a Guardian article about he r 1980 New Yorker short story, about the camps:

She wrote ..."The Shawl", she says, in a way she has never written anything, before or since. "I'm not a mystic, I don't believe in any of that. I've been on the side of rationalism. I had an experience, just the first five pages – I hate to say it, it's the kind of absurd thing that I mock – that I wasn't writing it, that it was dictated. Just for those five pages."

Cynthia Ozick is an accomplished writer. That may be why her writing bores me.