The Little Bride: A Novel

From the award-winning author of The Book of V., an unflinching, lushly imagined love story set against the backdrop of the epic frontier


When 16-year-old Minna Losk journeys from Odessa to America as a mail-order bride, she dreams of a young, wealthy husband, a handsome townhouse, and freedom from physical labor and pogroms. But her husband Max turns out to be twice her age, rigidly Orthodox, and living in a one-room sod hut in South Dakota with his two teenage sons.

The country is desolate,...