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Three Daughters

"Shoshanna, the youngest of the Wasserman sisters, is an inveterate control freak whose world turns upside down when her Filofax is scattered to the wind. The resulting chaos and the approach of a big birthday impel her to stare down the Evil Eye and re-evaluate her contented life.

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In the process, she feels compelled to initiate a reconciliation between her estranged sisters, Leah and Rachel, and between Leah and their father, Sam, a rabbi as charismatic in the pulpit as he is elusive to his loved ones." "Leah, a brilliant English professor and unreconstructed leader of the left, is eloquent and foul-mouthed, a crusading feminist and a passionately conflicted wife and mother, who is suddenly shocked by the prospect of losing the husband she has always taken for granted.".

"And Rachel, a sexual prodigy, domestic perfectionist, and mother of five, has papered over her losses with an athlete's discipline and a pragmatism bordering on self-sacrifice. On the cusp of the millennium, she watches her carefully constructed world crumble, but in the rubble discovers the woman she was meant to be.".

"As Leah's and Rachel's marriages reach crisis points, Shoshanna oversees the reunion between her stubborn siblings. But the rift between Leah and their father remains both intractable and mysterious until the events of New Year's Eve set off fireworks in the family."—BOOK JACKET.

Audience
adult
Length
medium · 388 pages

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