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"A powerful new novel of identity, loyalty and true love, from the international bestselling author of The Tenth Song In 1950's Brooklyn, sisters Rose and Pearl Weiss grow up in a loving but strict ultra-Orthodox family, never dreaming of defying their parents or their community's unbending and intrusive demands. Then, a chance meeting with a young French immigrant turns Rose's world upside down, its once bearable strictures suddenly tightening like a noose around her neck. Defiantly, she begins to live a secret life that shocks her family when it is discovered. Out of guilt and an overwhelming desire to be reconciled with those she loves, she finally bows to her parents' demands that she agree to an arranged marriage. But the night before her wedding, she commits an act of defiance so unforgivable it will exile her forever from her innocent young sister, her family, and all she has ever known. Forty years later, pious Pearl's sheltered young daughter Rivka suddenly discovers the truth about the family outcast, her Aunt Rose, now a successful photographer. Inspired, but naive and reckless, she sets off on a dangerous adventure that will stir up the ghosts of the past and alter the future in unimaginable ways for all involved."--
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Secrets, FICTION, Roman, Guilt, Siblings, City and town life, History, Family secrets, Jews, Weddings, Loyalty, General, Fate and fatalism, Ultra-Orthodox Jews, Sisters, Amerikanisches Englisch, Identity, Fiction, romance, historical, Fiction, jewish, Sisters, fiction, New york (n.y.), fiction, FICTION / General, Fiction, romance, historical, general, Jewish women, Sisters -- Fiction, Ultra-Orthodox Jews -- Fiction, Family secrets -- Fiction, Large type books, Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.) -- History -- 20th century -- Fiction, Jews, fictionTimes
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The Sisters Weiss: A Novel
Oct 07, 2014, St Martin s Griffin, St. Martin's Griffin
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0312570201 9780312570200
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