The Convention of Wives

A Novel

Debra Green

• Publisher: She Writes Press
• Year: 2022
• Topic: Literature
• eBook ISBN:
  9781647422424
• Subtopic: Historical Fiction
• Index: Literature

Dina and Julia first meet at a surgical convention and bond over frustrations with their husbands’ demanding schedules. But geography, time, and growing families make maintaining their friendship difficult and their relationship eventually falls apart. One of them is left to wonder why; the other has a secret. But neither of them knows that decisions made by family members decades earlier have set them on a collision course.

Years after their friendship ends, Julia gets word that her daughter has suddenly become seriously ill—and she and Dina must decide whether they can face the history that now unites them and muster the maturity to rescue their emotionally tattered families.

A sweeping saga that follows generations from a shtetl in Odessa to the comforts of Scarsdale, an uprising in Glasgow to servitude in the Caribbean, and a trek through the Alps to a displaced persons camp in Italy, The Convention of Wives is a story about the ever-evolving messiness of friendship and marriage, and the wonder of survival.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title Page
• Copyright
• Dedication
• Dina and Rob’s Family Tree
• Julia and John’s Family Tree
• Chapter One: Dina Aharoni Wasserman
• Chapter Two: Julia Cawley Kinsella
• Chapter Three: Dina
• Chapter Four: Miriam Aharoni
• Chapter Five: Julia
• Chapter Six: James Cawley
• Chapter Seven: Dina
• Chapter Eight: Julia
• Chapter Nine: Katherine Cawley
• Chapter Ten: Dina
• Chapter Eleven: Shoshana Aharoni
• Chapter Twelve: Rob Heller Wasserman
• Chapter Thirteen: Dina
• Chapter Fourteen: Leah Schwartz
• Chapter Fifteen: David Aharoni
• Chapter Sixteen: Julia
• Chapter Seventeen: Berta Cawley
• Chapter Eighteen: Allie Wasserman
• Chapter Nineteen: Julia
• Chapter Twenty: Allie
• Chapter Twenty-One: Allie
• Chapter Twenty-Two: Rosie Kinsella
• Chapter Twenty-Three: Elsa
• Chapter Twenty-Four: Julia
• Chapter Twenty-Five: Aiden Kinsella
• Chapter Twenty-Six: Rob
• Chapter Twenty-Seven: Allie
• Chapter Twenty-Eight: Julia
• Chapter Twenty-Nine: Dina
• Chapter Thirty: Rob
• Chapter Thirty-One: Dina
• Chapter Thirty-Two: Rosie Cawley
• Chapter Thirty-Three: Dina
• Chapter Thirty-Four: Rolph Heller
• Chapter Thirty-Five: Julia
• Chapter Thirty-Six: Dina
• Chapter Thirty-Seven: Dina
• Chapter Thirty-Eight: Allie
• Chapter Thirty-Nine: Dina
• Chapter Forty: Julia
• Chapter Forty-One: Dina
• After: Dina
• Author’s Note
• Acknowledgments
• About the Author
• Book Club Questions
• Resources