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The Marriage Box: A Novel de Corie Adjmi

The Marriage Box: A Novel

Autor Corie Adjmi
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 2 mai 2023
When Casey gets into trouble hanging out with the wrong crowd in New Orleans, her parents decide to move back to their Orthodox Syrian Jewish community in Brooklyn-where, swayed by the community's Middle Eastern values and her parents' traditional wishes, Casey marries Michael at eighteen, thinking she can adjust to Sephardic ways. But can she?
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781647420796
ISBN-10: 1647420792
Pagini: 288
Dimensiuni: 140 x 216 x 17 mm
Greutate: 0.39 kg
Editura: Simon And Schuster Group USA
Colecția She Writes Press
Locul publicării:United States

Notă biografică

Corie Adjmi is the author of the short story collection Life and Other Shortcomings, which won an International Book Award, an IBPA Benjamin Franklin award, and an American Fiction Award. Her essays and short stories have appeared in dozens of journals and magazines, including HuffPost, North American Review, Indiana Review, Medium, Motherwell, Kveller, and others. The Marriage Box is Corie's first novel. She is a mother and grandmother and lives and works in New York City.

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Casey Cohen, a Middle Eastern Jew, is a sixteen-year-old in New Orleans in the 1970s when she starts hanging out with the wrong crowd. Then she gets in trouble—and her parents turn her whole world upside down by deciding to return to their roots, the Orthodox Syrian Jewish community in Brooklyn. 

In this new and foreign world, men pray daily, thanking God they’re not women; parties are extravagant events at the Museum of Natural History; and the Marriage Box is a real place, a pool deck designated for teenage girls to put themselves on display for potential husbands. Casey is at first appalled by this unfamiliar culture, but after she meets Michael, she’s enticed by it. Looking for love and a place to belong, she marries him at eighteen, believing she can adjust to Syrian ways. But she begins to question her decision when she discovers that Michael doesn’t want her to go to college—he wants her to have a baby instead. 

Can Casey integrate these two opposing worlds, or will she have to leave one behind in order to find her way?