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Jewish Heritage Fiction These fiction titles are by Jewish authors and/or have Jewish themes. May 2023
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Last summer at the Golden Hotel
by Elyssa Friedland
Perfect for fans of Dirty Dancing and The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, this funny, nostalgia-filled story follows the Goldman and Weingold families as they, amid drama and scandal, try to save the Golden Hotel their beloved getaway in the Catskills.
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Antiquities
by Cynthia Ozick
An elderly trustee of the now defunct Temple Academy for Boys, Lloyd Wilkinson Petrie, as he prepares to write a memoir of his days at the school, navigates between the subtle anti-Semitism that pervaded the school's ethos and his fascination with his own family's heritage.
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Indignation
by Philip Roth
In 1951 America, during the second year of the Korean War, Marcus Messner, a studious young man from Newark, New Jersey, escapes his butcher father's fears about the potential dangers facing his beloved son, by attending college at Ohio's pastoral, conservative Winesburg College, where he confronts the confusing customs and constrictions of a different world.
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Nemesis
by Philip Roth
In a book set in 1944 Newark, devoted playground director Bucky Cantor, sidelined from the war due to his poor eyesight, watches in horror as the city's polio epidemic begins to ravage the children on his playground. By the best-selling author of The Humbling and The Plot Against America. .
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The murderer's daughters
by Randy Susan Meyers
After the murder of their father, Lulu and Merry grow up living tenuous lives where Lulu denies he ever existed and Merry dutifully visits him in prison, only to find their lives on the brink of collapse when they learn that their unrepentant and manipulative father is about to be paroled. A first novel.
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Fleishman is in Trouble : A Novel
by Taffy Brodesser-Akner
Divorcing his hostile wife when he concludes he could find genuine happiness elsewhere, a doctor is astonished when his ex abruptly disappears, making him unable to move on without acknowledging painful truths about his marriage.
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Morningside Heights
by Joshua Henkin
When the health of her husband, a brilliant Shakespeare professor, starts declining, Pru, struggling on her own and feeling isolated, meets a man with whom the possibility of newRomance blooms until her estranged stepson, a wealthy biotech investor, come back into their lives.
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Monkey boy : a novel
by Francisco Goldman
Francesco Goldberg, grappling with his heritage, career and growing up Jewish and Guatemalan in America, returns to his childhood home outside Boston where he explores the pressures of living between worlds all his life.
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Feast your eyes
by Myla Goldberg
The life of a controversial mid-20th-century photographer is chronicled through her daughter's memories, interviews with her intimates and excerpts from journals and letters documenting her quest for artistic legitimacy in the face of public notoriety.
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The plot
by Jean Hanff Korelitz
Wildly successful author Jacob Finch Bonner, who had stolen the plot of his book from a late student, fights to hide the truth from his fans and publishers, while trying to figure out who wants to destroy him.
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The imperfects
by Amy Meyerson
A family’s discovery of a priceless inheritance leads them on a pursuit for the truth that transforms their lives in unexpected ways. By the best-selling author of The Bookshop of Yesterdays. .
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Find me
by Andrâe Aciman
The author of the worldwide best-seller Call Me by Your Name revisits that novel's complex and beguiling characters decades after their first meeting. .
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Harvard Square : a novel
by André Aciman
An Egyptian-Jewish Harvard graduate student trying to assimilate into American culture in 1977 befriends an impetuous, loud Arab cab driver and must choose between his dream or his friend in this new novel from the author of Call Me By Your Name
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The unbreakables : a novel
by Lisa Barr
After discovering her husband has been serially unfaithful to her, Sophie escapes to France where she reawakens both her long-dormant artistic ambitions and her sensuality in this new novel from the award-winning author of Fugitive Colors. .
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The floating Feldmans
by Elyssa Friedland
Organizing a family reunion cruise for her 70th birthday in the hopes of resolving long estrangements, Annette reveals difficult secrets that challenge long-held perceptions about the more troublesome members of her clan.
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The bookshop of yesterdays
by Amy Meyerson
When Miranda Brooks receives the unexpected news that her uncle Billy has died and left her his bookstore, she discovers he's left her a business teetering on bankruptcy and a final scavenger hunt
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Forest dark : a novel
by Nicole Krauss
Living away all of his personal possessions after retiring, a once-ambitious man embarks on a journey to honor his parents in Israel, where a blocked writer is drawn into a mystery that alters her life in unimaginable ways. By the award-winning author of The History of Love. (general fiction).
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The matzah ball
by Jean Meltzer
Hiding her career as the best-selling author of Christmas romance novels from her family, chronically ill Rachel Rubenstein-Goldblatt, a“nice Jewish girl,” needing inspiration for her Hanukkah romance, must attend a high-end Jewish music celebration but her summer camp arch enemy stands in her way.
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Send for me
by Lauren Fox
A baker's daughter and her husband flee to America amid increasingly violent anti-Semitism in pre-World War II Germany two generations before her granddaughter learns the astonishing story of their heritage and losses. By the author of Days of Awe.
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Eternal life : a novel
by Dara Horn
Ever since she made a deal to save her son's life in Roman-occupied Jerusalem, Rachel has been doomed to live eternallyhaving hundreds of children and being stalked by an obsessed manbut, as her descendants develop new technologies for immortality, she realizes that, for them to live fully, she must die. By the author of The World to Come.
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The sisters of the winter wood
by Rena Rossner
A tale inspired by Jewish mythology is set in a woodland village on the border of Moldova and Ukraine and follows the experiences of two sheltered sisters who uncover a secret magical heritage..
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Season of love / : It's Time to Make the Yuletide Gay
by Helena Greer
When she inherits half of her great-aunt's Jewish-run Christmas tree farm, Miriam Blum, while sitting shiva and avoiding her parents, must save the business from going under with the help of the farm's grumpy manager, Noelle Northwood, who wants her gone until love enters the picture.
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Never meant to meet you : a novel
by Alli Frank
While dealing with a new class of kindergarteners, her son's budding manhood and her annoying ex-husband, Marjette Lewis, after tragedy strikes her street, navigates the ritual of loss with the help of her neighbor, and together they find the strength to remake their lives.
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The opportunist
by Elyse Friedman
When her wealthy seventy-six-year-old father announces he is marrying his twenty-eight-year-old nurse, hardworking single mother Alana Shropshire, ordered by her brothers to make the gold digger go away, is faced with a formidable foe who refuses to go down without a fight
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The hunt
by Faye Kellerman
When the biological mother of Peter and his wife Rina's foster son is brutally beaten and her children taken, Peter, Rina, and Gabe's biological father, a former hitman-turned-millionaire, race against time to rescue them, ending in an explosive confrontation from which no one will emerge unscathed
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The art forger [sound recording] : a novel
by Barbara A. Shapiro
An artist whose reputation has been tarnished stumbles on a piece of art that disappeared twenty-five years ago and agrees to forge it for a gallery owner, until she realizes that the painting she is forging may itself be a forgery
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Here I am : a novel
by Jonathan Safran Foer
A tale told over four tumultuous weeks in present-day Washington, D.C., traces the fracturing of a family in crisis when the three sons of Jacob and Julia confront the paradoxes between the lives they think they want and the lives they are actually living. By the award-winning author of Everything Is Illuminated.
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Young Jane Young : a novel
by Gabrielle Zevin
Cruelly branded for her affair with her congressman boss, an intern and blogger changes her name and moves to a remote town in Maine with her young daughter before local prompting to run for public office forces her to reckon with the past. By the best-selling author of The Storied Life of A. J. Fikry.
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The storied life of A.J. Fikry : a novel
by Gabrielle Zevin
When his most prized possession, a rare collection of Poe poems, is stolen, bookstore owner A. J. Fikry begins isolating himself from his friends, family and associates before receiving a mysterious package that compels him to remake his life. Read by Scott Brick.
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Weather girl
by Rachel Lynn Solomon
"Ari Abrams has always been fascinated by the weather, and she loves almost everything about her job as a TV meteorologist. Her boss, legendary Seattle weatherwoman Torrance Hale, is too distracted by her tempestuous relationship with her ex-husband, thestation's news director, to give Ari the mentorship she wants. Ari, who runs on sunshine and optimism, is at her wits' end. The only person who seems to understand how she feels is sweet but reserved sports reporter Russell Barringer. In the aftermath ofa disastrous holiday party, Ari and Russell decide to team up to solve their bosses' relationship issues. Between secret gifts and double dates, they start nudging their bosses back together. But their well-meaning meddling backfires when the real chemistry builds between Ari and Russell. Working closely with Russell means allowing him to get to know parts of herself that Ari keeps hidden from everyone. Will he be able to embrace her dark clouds as well as her clear skies"
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