{"product_id":"2940015497878","title":"The Bones and the Book","description":"Winner of the WILLA Literary Award\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn 1890, Aliza Rudinsk, a young Orthodox Jewish immigrant from the Ukraine, came to Seattle via New York’s Lower East Side expecting to build a good life for herself.  When Aliza’s bones turn up in Seattle’s underground streets in 1965 along with a book written in Yiddish, recently widowed empty nester Rachel  Mazursky offers to translate the book.  Aliza’s surprising and poignant story  compels Rachel to search for clues to the identity of the young woman’s murderer, but her quest for the truth unearths disturbing secrets about her own past as well as Aliza’s.\u003cbr\u003eThe Bones and the Book carries the reader back to a far-flung outpost of the Jewish diaspora where gold, good table manners, and assimilating often trump Torah, tribe, and tradition.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Isenberg’s story pulled me in right from the startling prologue.  The twin historical  stories of Aliza and Rachel are compelling and poignant.  The lives of these women in 1900 and 1965 are beautifully woven together, the strands balancing each other as each discovers her strengths and revises her own identity as a woman and a Jew.” – Sharan Newman, author of The Shanghai Tunnel\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePast and present collide in this complex, compelling historical mystery.  Using the classic elements of hidden manuscript and mysterious corpse, the author builds a highly original story that is both deeply Jewish and uniquely American.  Set in two wildly contrasting time periods, but rooted in the immigrant experience, the novel deftly explores the mysteries of difference, identity, loneliness, love, betrayal--and family.  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLev Raphael, author of Rosedale in Love: A Gilded Age Novel","brand":"Oconee Spirit Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47084366954736,"sku":"2940015497878","price":8.75,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940015497878_p0.jpg?v=1763620862","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940015497878","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}