Named a Best Book of Fall 2022 by Parade - BuzzFeed - New York Post - GMA.com - People
"Loigman's latest is a gem. A scrappy Jewish teenager newly arrived in 1920s New York struggles to follow her calling as a matchmaker--seventy years later, her cynical divorce-attorney granddaughter realizes she has very inconveniently inherited the family gift for matching soulmates. Both funny and moving, The Matchmaker's Gift made me smile from start to finish."
--Kate Quinn, New York Times bestselling author of The Rose Code
"Insightful, charming and packed with historical New York details, The Matchmaker's Gift is a tribute to the bonds of family and taking a chance on true love." --Shelf Awareness
"Loigman has a gift herself: the ability to evoke places and scenes with the subtlest of details. She takes us all over town in time and space: a crowded French bakery on the Upper East Side and narrow streets lined with sweltering tenements; the audience gathering at dusk for the Shakespeare Festival in Central Park and a Tribeca party sparkling with celebrities and high fashion." --BookTrib "The plot employs some mag-i-cal real-ism [and] sim-mers with vibrant detail...Loigman's research exudes authen-tic-i-ty, invok-ing the sights and smells of a bygone Low-er East Side. The his-tor-i-cal chap-ters are com-pelling; the more con-tem-po-rary ones are equal-ly so. A fas-ci-nat-ing nar-ra-tive." --Jewish Book Council "As we follow these parallel storylines, Sara and Abby follow their destinies with an abundance of character and charm. Plus, the dual timelines are rife with fun historical details." --BuzzFeed "Loigman's thorough exploration of turn-of-the century, Jewish immigrant culture and her smooth transitions into the 1990s give the reader a full and satisfying picture of Manhattan across the twentieth century. The details are painstaking but never tedious, and the relationships are exciting, sincere, and beautiful."