On division
Goldbloom, Goldie, 1964-2019
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In Williamsburg, Brooklyn, just a block or two up from the East River on Division Avenue, Surie Eckstein is soon to be a great-grandmother. Her ten children range in age from thirteen to thirty-nine. Her in-laws, postwar immigrants from Romania, live on the first floor of their house. Her daughter Tzila Ruchel lives on the second. She and Yidel, a scribe in such demand that he makes only a few Torah scrolls a year, live on the third. Wed when Surie was sixteen, they have a happy marriage and a full life, and, at the ages of fifty-seven and sixty-two, they are looking forward to some quiet time together. Into this life of counted blessings comes a surprise. Surie is pregnant. Pregnant at fifty-seven. It is a shock. And at her age, at this stage, it is an aberration, a shift in the proper order of things, and a public display of private life. She feels exposed, ashamed. She is unable to share the news, even with her husband. And so for the first time in her life, she has a secret - a secret that slowly separates her from the community.
Main title:
On division / Goldie Goldbloom.
Author:
Goldbloom, Goldie, 1964-, author
Edition:
First edition.
Imprint:
New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2019.©2019
Collation:
265 pages ; 22 cm.
ISBN:
9780374175313 (hardback)
Dewey class:
A823.4
Language:
English
Subject:
BRN:
367299
More Information:
| Location | Collection | Call number | Status/Desc |
|---|---|---|---|
| Brighton Library | Adult Fiction - General | GOLD | Available |