Author Linda Kass captures pageant energy and postwar disorientation in 'Bessie,' an impressively researched novel about Bess Myerson, the woman hailed by Jews as their modern Queen Esther.
In Cathleen Schine's latest book, a glamorous Jewish grandmother describes her family’s escape from the Nazis to a Californian artist colony to her aimless grandson during Covid lockdowns.
Author Gabrielle Zevin’s novel deftly examines how friends compete with each other, hurt each other, withdraw from each other and, ultimately, provide tender loving care for each other.