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City of Laughter by Temim Fruchter

City of Laughter by Temim Fruchter

A rich and riveting debut spanning four generations of Eastern European Jewish women bound by blood, half-hidden secrets, and the fantastical visitation of a shapeshifting stranger over the course of 100 years An ambitious,...

Ana Turns by Lisa Gor­nick

Ana Turns by Lisa Gor­nick

A kaleidoscopic story, unspooling over the twenty-four hours of a very contemporary woman’s sixtieth birthday. Nine years have passed since Ana Koehl had sex with her pot-addicted anesthesiologist husband, seven since she began an...

Daughters of Jerusalem by Galya Gerstman

Daughters of Jerusalem by Galya Gerstman

Daughters of Jerusalem is a saga of three generations of extraordinary Jewish women. Lili Ventura immigrates to the Holy Land in 1903 to fulfill a promise to God, and reinvents herself as a midwife,...