In her debut novel, The Ladies Auxiliary (), author Tova Mirvis introduces readers to recently widowed New Yorker Batsheva Jacobs, who settles into a close-knit, orthodox Jewish community in. · THE LADIES' AUXILIARY. by Tova Mirvis ‧ RELEASE DATE: Oct. 1, A debut that details, with wisdom and grace, the inevitable tensions between the comfort of community and the need for individual freedom, as a young widow and convert moves into a close-knit Orthodox Jewish neighborhood and becomes an unwitting catalyst for change. The Orthodox families of Memphis, Author: Tova Mirvis. In this extraordinary novel, Tova Mirvis takes us into the fascinating and insular world of the Memphis Orthodox Jews, one ripe with tradition and contradiction. Warm and wise, enchanting and funny, The Ladies Auxiliary brilliantly illuminates the timeless struggle between mothers and daughters, family and self, religious freedom and personal revelation, honoring the past and facing the future.
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Tova Mirvis is the national bestselling author of Visible City, The Outside World, and The Ladies Auxiliary. Her essays have appeared in various publications including the New York Times, Good Housekeeping, and Poets and Writers, and her fiction has been broadcast on NPR. She was a Scholar in Residence at the Hadassah-Brandeis Institute at Brandeis University, and Visiting Scholar at The Brandeis Women’s Studies Research Center. In her debut novel, The Ladies Auxiliary (), author Tova Mirvis introduces readers to recently widowed New Yorker Batsheva Jacobs, who settles into a close-knit, orthodox Jewish community in. Tova Mirvis (Goodreads Author) · Rating details · 5, ratings · reviews. 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 world of the Memphis Orthodox Jews, one ripe with tradition and contradiction.
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