Globe Books Special Jim Bartley’s Top 5 Globe and Mail, Saturday, November 27, 2010 In a Pale Blue Light by Lily Poritz Miller (Sumach) It’s best when a book sneaks up on you. Held by skilled storytelling, you feel things gathering to an essence you can’t yet identify, hidden in the totality of lives you’ve been privileged to enter. Lily Poritz Miller’s tale of a Jewish girlhood in 1940s Cape Town is a wonder of sleight-of-hand synthesis and catharsis, seething with the intolerance of the times, yet subtly and powerfully redemptive.