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FOR BOOK CLUBS AND BOOK LOVERS - ANNA SOLOMON
Each year at Purim, we tell the story of Esther, the Jewish orphan who rose to the throne of Persia and interceded with her husband to save her people from annihilation. Usually framed as a Cinderella-type story, the biblical account is less family-friendly: Esther is chosen to replace the disgraced queen Vashti, who refused a royal command to parade naked before a company of drunken men. In this bold, kaleidoscopic novel, Anna Solomon interweaves the Biblical story of Esther and Vashti with those of two other women: Lily, a 40-something wife and mother in contemporary Brooklyn, and Vee, a young senators wife in Watergate-era Washington. Their stories of power, desire and sex overlap and ultimately converge in the present day, as she reaches across centuries to capture the timeliness and timelessness of being a strong, passionate woman in a world governed by men. How far weve come and yet how many of the battles look the same Well be listening to Anna the day before the Purim holiday, for a new and unexpected take on its history, in an engrossing, highly readable, and darkly sexy novel. ANNA SOLOMON is the author of Leaving Lucy Pear and The Little Bride and a two-time winner of the Pushcart Prize. Her short fiction and essays have appeared in The New York Times Magazine, One Story, Slate, and more. She lives in Brooklyn. RHEA TREGEBOV is the winner of the Nancy Richler Memorial Prize for Fiction in 2020. She is the author of fiction, poetry and childrens books.
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