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Author
Publisher
She Writes Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Casey Cohen, a Middle Eastern Jew, is a sixteen-year-old in New Orleans in the 1970s when she starts hanging out with the wrong crowd. Then she gets in trouble-and her parents turn her whole world upside down by deciding to return to their roots, the Orthodox Syrian Jewish community in Brooklyn.
In this new and foreign world, men pray daily, thanking God they're not women, parties are extravagant events at the Museum of Natural History, and the Marriage...