The Little Bride
by:
Anna Solomon (author)
Inspired by the little-known real history of the Jewish settlement of the Great Plains, The Little Bride is an elegantly written tale of a sixteen-year-old Russian mail-order bride stranded on the South Dakota prairie, married to a man twice her age, and falling increasingly in love with her...
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Inspired by the little-known real history of the Jewish settlement of the Great Plains, The Little Bride is an elegantly written tale of a sixteen-year-old Russian mail-order bride stranded on the South Dakota prairie, married to a man twice her age, and falling increasingly in love with her nineteen-year-old stepson.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9781594485350 (1594485356)
ASIN: 1594485356
Publish date: September 6th 2011
Publisher: Riverhead Trade
Pages no: 320
Edition language: English
When 16-year-old Minna Losk journeys from Odessa to America as a mail-order bride, she dreams of a young, wealthy husband, a handsome townhouse, and freedom from physical labor and pogroms. But her husband Max turns out to be twice her age, rigidly Orthodox, and living in a one-room sod hut in South...
I bought this as a Christmas gift, but when I got it home and re-read the back cover, I began to have doubts that it would be a good choice for anyone on my gift list. Mail-order bride develops an attraction to her new stepson? It sounded a little bit trite, even tawdry, honestly.Thankfully, this bo...
I think the beauty with this book was this quietness over it, this stillness and contemplation that what happens happens. Which also makes this one hard book to rate, because even if I liked the story and so on I would rate it one way. But then I look at the writing and the feeling and it has to hav...
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