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"...a fascinating historical novel that plumbs the cultural contradictions that impacted Myerson and led her to speak out against both antisemitism and racial bigotry....Nuanced, complex and insightful...."

—Ms. Magazine.com

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"...impressively researched.... [it] comes to a crescendo in her vivid and artful portraits of real-life characters, and especially of Bessie, the woman hailed by her Jewish community as their modern Queen Esther." 

—Hadassah Magazine

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Bessie book cover
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