Jennifer S. Brown talks to Lilith about her new historical coming-of-age novel, “The Whisper Sister,” and the universal, timeless feeling of displacement experienced by Jews across generations.
Just in time for end-of-year reading and Hanukkah gift-giving, we’ve compiled this comprehensive list of some of our favorite reads of 2023 – perfect for Jewish feminists of all ages!
Renée Rosen talks to Lilith about the ways in which she adhered to the facts—and the important reasons why she didn’t in her novel about the life of Estée Lauder.
The setting: a Nazi breeding home in Bavaria.
An 82 year-old writer takes up historical fiction, penning a novel about the Spanish Civil War.
The new novel, “The Hidden Child”, set in Britain in the years between the two world wars, exposes—and challenges— pernicious ideas about epilepsy and sheds a more benevolent light on the disorder.
[T]he way that the woodcarvers of Eastern Europe, hounded out of their homes, were able to reinvent themselves here, well, that’s very inspiring..I wanted to shine a light on that story, and then to give a feminist twist.
I wanted the characters in The Wartime Sisters to be imperfect and layered, to make good and bad choices, to be difficult, to fail, and also to grow. It’s important to me that people recognize pieces of themselves and their family members when they read about Ruth and Millie.
A novel with three main protagonists and three different time periods is not so uncommon. But when that book is written by three different authors, that’s pretty unusual.
