EAN: 9781250757968

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** Winner of the 2020 Jewish Fiction Award ** A novel of wisdom and uncertainty of love in its greater and lesser forms and of the struggle between how it should be and how it is. It is impossible not to be moved. -Amy Bloom author of White Houses This book brings the reader into the heart of a close-knit Jewish family and their joys loves and sorrows . . . A marvelous book by a masterful writer. -Audrey Niffenegger author of Her Fearful Symmetry and The Time Traveler's Wife Through one woman's life at a moment of surprising change the award-winning author Goldie Goldbloom tells a deeply affecting morally insightful story and offers a rare look inside Brooklyn's Chasidic community On Division Avenue just a block or two up from the East River in Williamsburg Brooklyn 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. Goldie Goldbloom's On Division is an excavation of one woman's life a story of awakening at middle age and a thoughtful examination of the dynamics of self and collective identity. It is a steady-eyed look inside insular communities that also celebrates their comforts. It is a rare portrait of a long happy marriage. And it is an unforgettable new novel from a writer whose imagination is matched only by the depth of her humanity.

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