pickAbby gets volun-told to organize a Hanukkah festival to compete with area Christmas festivals but needs help. When she finds out the only other Jewish person nearby is her annoyingly sunny customer Seth, she begrudgingly asks for his help. He agrees in exchange for her pretending to be his girlfriend so his mom stops worrying. They spend Hanukkah with his parents in NYC so Abby can hunt for festival vendors & grow to understand each other better.
New day. New book.
Foot is still healing.
pickA woman moves to Israel as a young wife, but divorces soon after and ends up with a complete sense of insecurity, loneliness and fear that she‘ll never have another chance to become a wife and a mother. She rediscovers herself through a very structured religious practice - the study of Talmud. It‘s a personal and captivating narrative with links to Talmudic texts. #Hanukkahchallenge #imthatjew #told_by_a_woman
pickThis book won both a Newbery Honor and was a Sydney Taylor Book Award Honor, which is how it got on our book club‘s radar. We all learned some new-to-us history and appreciated the scope of the book. It moves through several generations of a family, taking place in four different countries and with four different protagonists. Lots to take in!
This was my April #BookSpin pick.
