This is a very different book - a Jewish woman's journey in the westward movement of the mid 1800's. The story is interesting and fast-paced and deals with a subject area not usually depicted in "Jewish" themed books.
Eva marries, not out of love, a German Jew who went to America to seek his fortune. She is escaping a past and memories that haunt her in her native Germany. An affair with a gentile painter and the death of her sister (for which she blames herself) leads to shame and guilt and she needs to get away. Abraham Shein provides the means.
He turns out to be a gambler and womanizer and she is still haunted by her past and her guilt.
She suffers miscarriages and still births before finally giving birth to a baby girl, who she names after her sister.
She escapes finally, from her past and her husband and finds redemption in San Francisco.
A good read.
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