The Marriage Box
eBook - ePub

The Marriage Box

A Novel

  1. 287 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

The Marriage Box

A Novel

About this book

Featured as a Goodreads Most Popular Book of May 2023 and Top 6 Jewish Books This Year, The Jewish Chronicle

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, families gather weekly for Shabbat dinner; 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 shocked 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?

Information

Publisher
She Writes Press
Year
2023
eBook ISBN
9781647420802
Subtopic
Women in Fiction

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright
  4. Dedication
  5. Prologue
  6. New Orleans, 1980
  7. New Orleans, 1976
  8. Alabama, 1980
  9. New Orleans, 1976
  10. New Jersey, 1980
  11. New Orleans, 1976
  12. New Orleans, 1979
  13. New Orleans, 1979
  14. New Orleans, 1980
  15. New Jersey, 1980
  16. New Jersey, 1980
  17. Brooklyn, 1980
  18. Brooklyn, 1981
  19. Brooklyn, 1981
  20. Brooklyn, 1981
  21. Brooklyn, 1981
  22. Brooklyn, 1982
  23. Brooklyn, 1982
  24. Brooklyn, 1982
  25. Brooklyn, 1982
  26. New York City, 1983
  27. New York City, 1983
  28. New York City, 1983
  29. New York City, 1984
  30. New York City, 1985
  31. New York City, 1985
  32. New York City, 1985
  33. New York City, 1985
  34. New York City, 1985
  35. New York City, 1985
  36. Brooklyn, 1985
  37. New York City, 1985
  38. New York City, 1985
  39. Author’s Note
  40. Acknowledgments
  41. About the Author
  42. Selected Titles from She Writes Press

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