{"product_id":"9780393078343","title":"The Ladies Auxiliary: A Novel","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn this remarkable and assured debut, Tova Mirvis tells the story of the close-knit, carefully structured world of the Orthodox community in Memphis, Tennessee, a world that unravels when Batsheva, newly widowed and a convert to Judaism, and her five-year-old daughter, Ayala, move in.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBatsheva is free-spirited and artistic, and at first the women of the ladies auxiliary discover in her a passion for the traditions and rituals of Judaism which have become stale and routine to them. But when Batsheva becomes close with the restless high-school girls she teaches who are eager to catch glimpses of the non-Kosher world outside, and befriends, maybe a little too intimately, the beloved Rabbi's only son, Yosef, feathers begin to ruffle. When events come to a head, and Batshevea's past is revealed, the women's allegiances begin to split over whether Batsheva should be forced out of the community.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBatsheva is an unforgettable character, one who makes her claims on the reader's heart from the first page. \u003cem\u003eThe Ladies Auxiliary\u003c\/em\u003e, beautifully and skillfully told, shows what happens when the outside world leans on a closed community so intent on keeping its children inside its tight walls that it cannot see it is losing them.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Norton, W. W. \u0026 Company, Inc.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47121503617264,"sku":"9780393078343","price":23.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780393078343_p0.jpg?v=1769892899","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780393078343","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}