Mara: A Novel

by Tova Reich

Overview

This is the story of Mara, a Jewish girl from Riverside Drive, and a hippie from Israel whom everyone distrusts, and the Orthodox wedding that unites them.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780815606598
Publisher:	Syracuse University Press
Publication date:	08/01/2001
Series:	Library of Modern Jewish Literature
Edition description:	1ST SYRACU
Pages:	256
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.25(h) x 0.59(d)

About the Author

Tova Reich is the author of the novel Master of the Return, also published by Syracuse University Press, and of stories that have appeared in the Atlantic Monthly, Harper's, Commentary, and other magazines.

Editorial Reviews

Reich's voice is a striking one: she has a gift for outrageous, hard-edged comedy that Evelyn Waugh might have appreciated.

Newsweek

Mara is startling, playful and irreverent. It has none of the pieties you would expect in a book cluttered with wedding canopies, crocheted skullcaps, ritual baths, and the Hebrew bill of divorcement.

The New York Times Book Review

It is evident from the very first page of Mara that an extraordinary energy is at work. The opening scene, an Orthodox wedding uniting Mara, a Jewish girl from Riverside Drive, with a hippie from Israel whom everyone distrusts, floats up into life with an unmistakable and spontaneous buoyancy.

Harper's