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As described in Publishers Marketplace, it's: "a debut novel exploring the little-known history of Jewish immigrants who settled on the Great Plains - the story of a young Russian mail-order bride stranded on the South Dakota prairie, married to a man twice her age and increasingly in love... read more
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““Does praying ever work? Could it maybe be argued that prayer is just a fussy form of pessimism?””
Samuel
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There were things you wanted only because they would mean that you were wanted.
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She didn’t know then—she didn’t know yet—that pleasure was its own necessity, as grimly serious as mourning.
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But knowing the opposite of a thing often seemed to Minna to be the same as knowing a thing itself.
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She had a choice. Which Minna used to think was the same as freedom: given choice, you were free to choose, and then you made—you knew how to make—the right choice. But she was coming to think that there were certain things you could only do if you did not quite know that you were doing them, choices you could make only by pretending you didn’t comprehend them.
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If she believed in the rules, she’d thought, if she believed in God, obedience would come easily. If she feared, like the others, she would be free of choice, and therefore of sin, and she would no longer have to fear.
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He was afraid of Max, just as she’d been afraid of Rebeka. Weak people made you see yourself in them.
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Minna wondered if dignity was not as formidable as she’d imagined it, neither as elusive nor as profound. If it was merely the ability to keep what belonged inside in, and outside out.
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things—New York is like being in the middle of a parade where everyone has been called home, all at once, in all different directions.
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The man’s body? Contains his mind. The woman’s? Only a body. We are body bodies. Yes? Understand?
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But they saw no Indians. If they existed, Minna thought, if they were out there beyond and beneath her line of sight, then perhaps they were far more civilized than anyone suspected. If civility was Jews shaving beards and women smiling and children wearing shoes, if it was the ability to disguise oneself, what greater civility could there be than not to appear at all?
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First Sentence edit
The physical inspection was first.
Table of Contents edit
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ONE
TWO
THREE
FOUR
FIVE
SIX
SEVEN
EIGHT
NINE
TEN
ELEVEN
Marriage
TWELVE
THIRTEEN
FOURTEEN
FIFTEEN
SIXTEEN
SEVENTEEN
EIGHTEEN
NINETEEN
Winter
TWENTY
TWENTY-ONE
TWENTY-TWO
TWENTY-THREE
TWENTY-FOUR
TWENTY-FIVE
TWENTY-SIX
Spring
TWENTY-SEVEN
TWENTY-EIGHT
TWENTY-NINE
THIRTY
Authors & Contributors edit
- Anna Solomon (Author)
First Edition edit
Original Language: English
Publisher: Penguin Group
Country: USA
Publication Date: 2011
ISBN: 978-1-59448-535-0
Page Count: 314
Publisher: Penguin Group
Country: USA
Publication Date: 2011
ISBN: 978-1-59448-535-0
Page Count: 314
Classification edit
- Library of Congress: PS3619,O4329L57 2011
- Dewey: 813.6
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