PositiveThe New YorkerAs a narrator, Osgood is affable and erudite, able to take smooth detours into the writings of Tolstoy, Plath, and Augustine, and others who have wrestled with religion and its place in society ... Osgood writes movingly about her experiences with Shabbat, which she enjoys as a source of community, routine, and time spent off her phone ... But even she realizes that her voluble, pluralistic analysis of the tradition doesn’t fully capture its power.
