Publisher: Riverhead
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The Romance Reader
Pearl Abraham's debut novel, The Romance Reader, details the challenges faced by a teenage girl growing up in a Satmar family in the 1970s. Rachel Benjamin is the oldest of seven children (Abraham herself was third of nine), and her childhood environment is even more intense than the average ultra-Orthodox home. Her father, an aspiring scholar and rabbi, has more...
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Giving Up America
A New York Times reviewer noted of Abraham's second novel that "her prose is sparse and exacting, tracing the inner life of a young woman caught between the Hasidic world of her ancestors and the materialism of secular America." more...
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The Seventh Beggar
Writing for the National Yiddish Book Center's Jewish Reader, Judy Bolton-Fasman noted "The Seventh Beggar, Pearl Abraham’s third and most ambitious novel, highlights the connections of myth and faith that link Jews across time and space. Abraham’s fiction showcases a Hasidic world similar to the one in which she was raised. She aims to guide her reader through this more...
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