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Rebel Satori Press
The Mikvah Queen
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9781608640317
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9781608640317
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The Mikvah Queen
$19.25
In the anti-everything hippie culture of early '80s Ithaca, New York, what rituals can a girl borrow, steal, or invent to make sense of puberty? Jane Schwartz, a lonely, Talmud-quoting, disco-worshipping eleven-year-old girl, builds a mikvah (Jewish ritual bath) in the porta-sauna of her middle-aged neighbor, Charlene Walkeson, in hopes of saving Charlene from the ravages of cancer. Will Jane also save her fierce, fragile self? Out of fragments of disco, feminism, cooking shows, Christian salvation narratives and Jewish law, Jane forges her own theology. Winner of the Dana Award for the Novel, The Mikvah Queen is a remarkable exploration of postmodern Jewish identity, cancer, the confusion and promise of alternative culture, and the power of ritual.
| Author: Jennifer Fink |
| Publisher: Rebel Satori Press |
| Publication Date: Sep 15, 2010 |
| Number of Pages: 220 pages |
| Binding: Paperback or Softback |
| ISBN-10: 1608640310 |
| ISBN-13: 9781608640317 |
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