As a small child on an immigrant ship from Europe, Sara and her family realize that she has a gift for helping people find their soulmates. As she gets older, it's a gift she wishes to capitalize on. However, the well-established matchmaking network in NYC at the time was exclusively older, married men. This went far beyond not being taken seriously. The establishment felt threatened by Sara and wanted her stopped.
After Sara's death, her granddaughter, Abby, a rising divorce attorney, is left all her journals. It took Abby a little while to figure out exactly what she was reading about. Then she wondered why it was left to her, what sort of message was her grandmother sending her, and what was she supposed to do with this information.
Told in two different timelines, this is a story about women trying to figure out their places in the world. Abby's story really resonated with me. She became a divorce attorney after living through her parents' terrible divorce. She felt her mother had been unheard during her divorce and she wanted to help other women who might end up in that situation. By the very end of the novel, I was thinking about my divorce attorney and about her history as a divorce attorney, first representing immigrant women who couldn't get a fair shake in divorce court.
The Matchmaker's Gift was a well-developed story that was easy and enjoyable to read.
This is the second novel that I've read and enjoyed by Lynda Cohen Loigman. The first was The Two Family House back in 2016.
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