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Abraham, Pearl Giving up America
Riverhead Books 1999 1573227528 / 9781573227520 Trade Paperback Near-Fine
Near-fine condition. NO remainder marks or price clippings - Tight spine 309 pages. NO writing, marks or tears inside book. When Deena decides to marry Daniel, an Orthodox Jew, her father, a Hasidic scholar, opposes the marriage for Kabbalistic reasons: the sum of the numbers assigned to the Hebrew letters in their names equals the numerical value of the Hebrew word for "pain." Yet the marriage appears blessed." "When Daniel brings home the new temp from work, a young southerner in training for the Miss America pageant, and her best friend, the couple and the two women form an immediate and unlikely foursome. But soon cracks begin to appear in the foundation of Deena and Daniel's marriage, and the values that Deena grew up with are thrown into question, along with the very notion of "home."" "Giving Up America charts the conflict between the religious and the secular, between Hasidic and Orthodox practices, between being single and being married. It painfully juxtaposes the inner desires, expectations, and imaginings of its characters with the workaday realities and choices we all face.
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Abraham, Pearl The Romance Reader: A Novel
Putnam Pub Group 1995 1573220159 / 9781573220156 Hard Cover Fine Fine
Near-new condition. NO remainder marks or price clippings. Tight spine, clean pages. NO writing, marks or tears inside book. 296 pages. Synopsis: The Romance Reader invites us to enter the Hasidic world as few have ever seen it - through the eyes of a young woman on the brink of adulthood. The daughter of a visionary rabbi who dreams of founding his own synagogue and center of learning, Rachel Benjamin lives in an insular environment, seemingly protected from the temptations and freedoms the modern world offers. As the eldest of seven siblings, she is expected to set a moral example within her family and the community: She must wear thick opaque tights with seams; she must never wear a bathing suit in public; she is not to read books in English. Rachel is a dreamer like her father; but her dreams are of the strong, confident men and the beautiful damsels in distress she reads about in romance novels she sneaks under her blankets at night. Secretly she begins to wear sheer stockings to school, concealed under high boots, and takes classes to become a lifeguard. She longs to live not in the dying, desolate community of a bungalow colony in upstate New York, where she can't help but be aware of the presence and allures of the secular world surrounding her, but in Brooklyn - in Williamsburgh or Borough Park - where the Hasidic world is sufficient unto itself and she could more easily be the good Hasidic daughter she is trying to be. Unlike her siblings and friends, Rachel craves the independence she will never have as a Hasidic woman in an arranged marriage. And yet, as her engagement draws inevitably nearer, the strong pulls of family and tradition, weigh against the frightening unknown beyond her - the secular world she knows only through her beloved romance novels.
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