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Jennifer S. Brown: Modern Girls

(Fiction, 384 pp. 2016)

An immigrant mother and her modern daughter wrestle with unplanned pregnancies and unthinkable choices in 1935 New York. They are both forced to confront their beliefs and a changing world.

Discussion questions from Penguin Random House

Kirkus Review

Review by Sophie Siegel, Jewish Book Council

Review by David Cooper, New York Journal of Books

Hannah N. Neier interviews Jennifer S. Brown, Lilith blog, April 5, 2016

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