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Description
When free-spirited Batsheva moves into the close-knit Orthodox community of Memphis, Tennessee, the already precarious relationship between the Ladies Auxiliary and their teenage daughters is shaken to the core. In this extraordinary novel, Tova Mirvis takes us into the fascinating and insular... read more
Cast of Characters/Important People
- Bathsheva: Main Character
- Mrs Levy: Add a description of this character.
- Helen Shayowitz
- Mimi Rueben: Rabbi's Wife
- Leanna Zuckerman: Moved from Chicago 7 years ago, gossip drives her crazy
- Yosef: Rabbi's son
- Naomi: works part-time as a social worker, disagrees with the direction of the school
- Marilyn Ackerman: non-Orthodox, non-practicing, lives in Benjamin's childhood home
- LeAnna Zuckerman: Wears cuttlots and goes mixed swimming while on vacation
- Jocelyn Shanzer: Eats shrimp salad in secret
- Tzporah Newburger: Hates going to the Mikvah
- Bessie Kimmel: Works at the Mikvah
- Ran Reinherd: President of the Auxilary
- Becky Feldman: Mother who is constantly fighting with her daughter
- Yockered: 29 year old teacher, never married
- Ilana Salzman: See no point in getting good grades because she cant go to a "good" school
- Shira Feldman: Rebellious
- Ester: Rabbi's Secretary
First Sentence
BEFORE BATSHEVA MOVED TO Memphis, our community was the safest place on earth, close, small, held together like a carefully crocheted sweater.
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Authors & Contributors
- Tova Mirvis (Author)
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