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REVIEWS: Modern Girls
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Kirkus
Historical Novel Society
GoodReads
Book Companion
A dazzling debut novel set in New York City’s Jewish
immigrant community in 1935... In 1935, Dottie Krasinsky is the
epitome of the modern girl. A bookkeeper in Midtown Manhattan,
Dottie steals kisses from her steady beau, meets her girlfriends
for drinks, and eyes the latest fashions. Yet at heart, she is a
dutiful daughter, living with her Yiddish-speaking parents on
the Lower East Side. So when, after a single careless night, she
finds herself in a family way by a charismatic but unsuitable
man, she is desperate: unwed, unsure, and running out of
options. After the birth of five children—and twenty years as a
housewife—Dottie’s immigrant mother, Rose, is itching to return
to the social activism she embraced as a young woman. With
strikes and breadlines at home and National Socialism rising in
Europe, there is much more important work to do than cooking and
cleaning. So when she realizes that she, too, is pregnant, she
struggles to reconcile her longings with her faith.
Characters: 78. Amazon rating: 4 1/2 stars. Genre: Historical
Fiction.
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