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Modern Girls follows Dottie Krasinsky, a Jewish bookkeeper living in Midtown Manhattan in 1935. After an unplanned pregnancy, Dottie gives birth to five children and spends two decades as a housewife. Meanwhile, her Yiddish‑speaking mother, Rose, returns to social activism, reflecting the forces of strikes, breadlines, and the rise of National Socialism. The novel explores the tensions between faith, tradition and modernity as mother and daughter confront life‑changing decisions in a rapidly changing world.
First publish date: 2016
Genre: Historical Fiction/20th Century Historical Fiction
Authors: Jennifer S. Brown
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