On Division : A Novel (Hardcover)

from ShannonRose4

I had just finished watching Shtisel on Netflix and wanted more of the community and the traditions when I started reading this novel. We meet Surie who is part of the Williamsburg Jewish community, about to become a great-grandmother. As the novel opens, we find Surie waiting for the bus home ha...

from ShannonRose4

I had just finished watching Shtisel on Netflix and wanted more of the community and the traditions when I started reading this novel. We meet Surie who is part of the Williamsburg Jewish community, about to become a great-grandmother. As the novel opens, we find Surie waiting for the bus home ha...

from ShannonRose4

I had just finished watching Shtisel on Netflix and wanted more of the community and the traditions when I started reading this novel. We meet Surie who is part of the Williamsburg Jewish community, about to become a great-grandmother. As the novel opens, we find Surie waiting for the bus home ha...

from froxgirl

Here's the flip side of Unorthodox: the woman who stays. Mother of ten, grandmother of thirty two, almost a great-grandmother. Married at 16, deeply settled into and revered in her Chassidic community in Williamsburg, Brooklyn - and Surie Eckstein is pregnant again, with twins, at age 57. Medical...

from TimBazzett

I absolutely loved Goldie Goldbloom's other novel, THE PAPERBARK SHOE, a real literary potboiler, with its abandoned albino artistic heroine, set in the unforgiving Outback of Australia during WWII. It was a book of considerable scope with a number of unexpected twists and turns, filled with crue...