The Migdal Chapter of Hadassah at North Shore Towers presents…
Summer Reading for Hadassah Book Club:
“Modern Girls” by Jennifer S. Brown
HERE’S WHAT THE CRITICS ARE SAYING ABOUT
“MODERN GIRLS” BY JENNIFER S. BROWN…
“Brown deftly sketches the historical context
of two Lower East Side women’s domestic
tribulations, alternating between their stories,
reflecting upon the social consequences faced
by women in different generations… A cleareyed
view of the sharp, difficult choices facing
women on the cusp of equality.”
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—Kirkus Reviews
“A moving debut, portraying the sacrifices
a mother and daughter make in order to save
face for their family.”
—Booklist
“The novel is not only a nostalgic portrait
of an earlier era but a feminist reminder of
how limited and circumscribed were women’s
opportunities and choices just a few generations
ago… Satisfying both emotionally and
narratively...Its suspenseful plot and warm
emotional tone should appeal to a wide
audience.”
—New York Journal of Books
Co-led by Arlene Augenbraun
and Bern Rosenthal,
the Migdal/
Hadassah Book Club will
meet on Wednesday, July
25, at 2 p.m. in the Coleridge
Lounge, Arcade Building
#3, to discuss “Modern
Girls,” the absorbing debut
novel by Jennifer S. Brown.
Set in New York City’s Jewish
immigrant community in 1935, a s
women in America strive for the right to work, vote,
and lead independent lives, this dazzling novel follows
the life of Dottie Krasinsky. The epitome of
the modern girl, Dottie, a bookkeeper in Midtown
Manhattan, struggles with her position in modern
society while still being a “nice Jewish girl” and dutiful
daughter to her Yiddish-speaking parents, with whom
she lives on the Lower East Side.
Wednesday, July 25, at 2 p.m.
Coleridge Lounge, in the Arcade of
Building #3.
The Hadassah
Book Club meeting
July 2018 ¢ NORTH SHORE TOWERS COURIER 19