A timeless American novel about an immigrant girl growing up on the Lower East Side who dares to challenge her Orthodox Jewish familys narrow conceptions of a womans place in the world, featuring a new foreword by the author of the New York Times bestseller Unorthodox?the basis for the hit Netflix series?and cover art by New Yorker cartoonist Liana FinckA Penguin ClassicThe youngest of four daughters in a family that left Poland in the 1920s for the crowded tenements of New York Citys Lower East Side, Sara Smolinsky has seen her sisters resign themselves, under their rabbi fathers iron fist, to loveless marriages and empty futures. They are bread givers, working to feed the family while their father studies the Torah?according to which, as their father reminds them, a woman without her father or husband is less than nothing. But Sara hungers for more. In defiance of her father, she breaks free, escaping home to see what the American dream holds for her in this poignant comingofage tale and striking portrait of feminist rebellion.For more than seventyfive years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the Englishspeaking world. With more than 2,000 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as uptodate translations by...

Binding: Paperback;240 pages; Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd; Classification: FA; Weight: 316 g; Dimensions: 130 x 196 x 17

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