Javascript is not enabled in your browser. For a better shopping experience, please upgrade now. How was it that out of all the Uh-oh, it looks like your Internet Explorer is out of date. Mother and daughter must confront their beliefs, the changing world, and the fact that their lives will never again be the same…. On Sunday, Chicago chef Ina Pickney, Inas Kitchen: Memories and Recipes from the Breakfast Queen on Wednesday, novelist Jennifer S. Brown eBook Barnes & Noble A dazzling debut novel set in New York City’s Jewish immigrant community in 1935.

Yet when she realizes that she, too, is pregnant, she struggles to reconcile her longings with her faith. Modern Girls focuses on a Jewish immigrant family during the Depression. A dazzling debut novel set in New York City’s Jewish immigrant commun. Read 563 reviews from the world's largest community for readers. With strikes and breadlines at home, National Socialism rising in Europe, and a brother unable to escape Poland, she knows there is more important work to be done than cooking and cleaning. Brown Published: ApPublisher: NAL Historical Fiction/Women’s Fiction I have read many books set during this turbulent time in our history, but nothing that has tackled the delicate subject of unexpected pregnancies in a mother AND a daughter. READERS GUIDE Questions for Discussion 1. Read 563 reviews from the world's largest community for readers. So when after a single careless night, she is in a family way by a charismatic but unsuitable man, she is desperate-unwed, unsure, and running out of options.Īfter twenty years as a housewife and the birth of five children, Dottie’s immigrant mother, Rose, is itching to return to the social activism of her youth. Browns debut novel, Modern Girls (NAL/Penguin), set in 1935 in New York City, is about a mother and daughter who must face the consequences of. Yet at heart, she is a dutiful Jewish daughter, living with her Yiddish-speaking parents on the Lower East Side.

A bookkeeper in Midtown Manhattan, Dottie has a steady beau, close girlfriends, and an eye for fashion. In 1935, Dottie Krasinsky is the epitome of the modern girl. Eric Zolov Author Of The Walls of Santiago: Social Revolution and Political Aesthetics in Contemporary.

Modern Girls by Jennifer S. Brown