A groundbreaking Jewish feminist short story collection.
Short story
collections focusing on Jewish writers have--no surprise--typically
given women authors short shrift. This new volume represents the best
Jewish feminist fiction published in Lilith magazine, and does
what no other collection has done before in its geographic scope, its
inclusion of twenty-first-century stories, and its Jewish feminist
focus.
This collection
showcases a wide range of stories offering variegated cultures and
contexts and points of view: Persian Jews; a Biblical matriarch; an
Ethiopian mother in modern Israel; suburban American teens; Eastern
European academics; a sexual questioner; a Jew by choice; a new
immigrant escaping her Lower East Side sweatshop; a Black Jewish
marcher for justice; in Vichy France, a toddler's mother hiding out;
and more.
Organized by theme,
the stories in this book emphasize a breadth of content, and our hope
is that in reading you'll appreciate the liveliness of the burgeoning
self-awareness brought to life in each tale, and the occasional
funny, call-your-friend-and-tell-her-about-it moment. Skip around,
encounter an author whose other work you may know, be enticed by a
title, or an opening line. We hope you'll find both pleasure and
enlightenment--and sometimes revelation--within these pages.
