The Gospel According to Wanda B Lazarus

Title: The Gospel According to Wanda B Lazarus
Author: Lynn Joffe
Publisher: Modjaji Books
Reviewer: Ambre Nicolson

​Hold on to you britches b*tches, Wanda is about to take you on a wild ride!
​Wanda - an accidentally immortal being - is a heroine for our times (and in fact, all times). She is wicked, foul-mouthed, funny, kind hearted and occasionally criminal. In other words, flawed but irresistible.
On the surface of it author Lynn Joffe has created an energetic and entertaining tale that spans centuries and even other dimensions as we follow in Wanda’s footsteps. But make no mistake, this is also a serious business. Joffe has experimented with the form of the picaresque novel, turned the anti-Semitic trope of the Wandering Jew inside out and upside down and offered a tart-tongued feminist retort to the ways that history has curtailed womens’ choices. More than anything else though, Wanda is great fun and I dare you to be anything other than riveted as she shimmies, sashays and blasphemes her way through history, all while auditioning for the role of her many lifetimes.

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