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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. When a chance meeting with a young French immigrant turns Rose?s world upside down, events lead to her exile from all she has ever known. Forty years later, Pearl?s sheltered young daughter discovers the ugly truth about her aunt and sets off on a dangerous adventure that will alter the future for all involved.
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I attended The Hebrew Institute of Long Island. I then decided that I wanted to be a writer. I got a B.A. from Brooklyn College, while simultaneously attending Sara Schneirer's Hebrew Teacher's Seminary in Boro Park. I loved God. I still do. But it wasn't so clear to me whether people who wore the black outfits and wigs were truly more pious, or just stuck in some social groove. I got a Master's Degree in Engish from Hebrew University in 1977. I only started writing novels when I was in my late thirties, after the birth of my fourth child.
