Rachel Kadish: 5 books

In this affecting, perceptive novel, Rachel Kadish reflects on the ghosts of the past, the tensions of war, and the difficult bonds of family. When Maya enrolls at Hebrew University in Jerusalem shortly after the Gulf War, she hopes to leave New York and a fraught relationship with her mother behind...

Tolstoy famously wrote, “Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.” To Tracy Farber, thirty-three, happily single, headed for tenure at a major university, and content to build a life around friends and work, this celebrated maxim is questionable at best. Because...

In a working-class Irish Catholic town, the abuse of a young girl is hushed up by a community more interested in civility than justice. Now, almost two decades later, sweet, damaged Charlotte starts receiving obscene text messages from someone who insists he knows her secret, and ten seemingly unconnected...

**WINNER OF A NATIONAL JEWISH BOOK AWARD A USA TODAY BESTSELLER "A gifted writer, astonishingly adept at nuance, narration, and the politics of passion."—Toni Morrison** Set in London of the 1660s and of the early twenty-first century, The Weight of Ink is the interwoven tale of two...

Helen, una studiosa di storia ebraica sulla soglia della pensione, viene convocata per visionare alcuni documenti ebraici del XVII secolo appena scoperti dietro il muro di una casa londinese durante una ristrutturazione. Avvalendosi dell’aiuto di Aaron Levy, un brillante studente americano, Helen...