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In the summer of '76, the Shulmans and the Melishes migrate to Kaaterskill, the tiny town in upstate New York where Orthodox Jews and Yankee year-rounders live side by side from June through August. Elizabeth Shulman, a devout follower of Rav Elijah Kirshner and the mother of five daughters, is restless. She needs a project of her own, outside her family and her cloistered community. Across the street, Andras Melish is drawn to Kaaterskill by his adoring older sisters, bound to him by their loss and wrenching escape from the Holocaust. Both comforted and crippled by his sisters' love, Andras…
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6 editions- Ebook · English · 2009Random House Publishing Group · 9780307573605
- Audiobook · English · 1999Recorded Books · 9780788729195
- Other · English · 1999Thorndike Press · 576 pages · 9780786218639
- Other · English · 1999San Val · 9780613218368
- Other · English · 1999Dell Pub. · 324 pages · 9780385323901
- Other · English · 1998Dial Press · 324 pages · 9780385323895
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