In Cathleen Schine's latest book, a glamorous Jewish grandmother describes her family’s escape from the Nazis to a Californian artist colony to her aimless grandson during Covid lockdowns.
Author Gabrielle Zevin’s novel deftly examines how friends compete with each other, hurt each other, withdraw from each other and, ultimately, provide tender loving care for each other.
Richman and Edwards team up to tell a powerful story of two women—a Jewish abolitionist and a slave from New Orleans—whose lives are connected by the Civil War.