This book was recommended to me by a friend who described it as really good, but really weird. She was right.
Granted, it wasn't the weird I was expecting (most of my baseline for weird is China Mieville and this was nothing like), but I could certainly see her point. The story tended to progress in unexpected ways and the storytelling style was intriguing, especially in how Bloom wraps up lives - neatly, but without mitigating their complexity.
I enjoyed this story, intrigued as I was by the character and the different view of the historical era. But still, nothing at all what I was expecting from a book about a Jewish immigrant woman.