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I have read many books and memoirs on hasidic life in brooklyn and find most of them to be either sensationalized binary or simply poorly researched and inaccurate

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She handles issues of sexual abuse and community policing in very thoughtprovoking ways that stay with the reader long after finishing

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The quote at the beginning references abraham and sarah and surie feels herself to be really old for this new role but this is not a retelling of the abraham and sarah story

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I read it in one long day neglecting everything else

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You wonder how theyre all going to get through it in one piece

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Get a copy of on division

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Not those immediate years sometimes conjured by the words postholocaust but of jewish life today when the holocaust still casts a large shadow for those who remember but can perhaps still be felt most largely by the absence it created by all the missing people by the missing lives that are simply just… not here

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And it is an unforgettable new novel from a writer whose imagination is matched only by the depth of her humanity