It was a pleasure to meet Linda Grant the other day, at the launch of her new book The People on the Street. Here's a passage from the first chapter:
I don't know what got inside me that I wanted to write this book. I suppose I was trying to work out something about Jews, because if I could get that figured out, I might understand something about myself, about why I behave this way and not that ... and to be honest, because I like stories and the Jewish story seemed to me, and still does, the story to beat them all.
It was a pleasure, too, to meet three blogospherical luminaries at the same event.