Oedipus in Brooklyn and Other Stories | 
"Though Ferrante insists on remaining private as a person, her work reveals startlingly intimate truths about women‘s lives. The same can be said for Blume Lempel." #JewLit
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"A blinding haze hung in the air like carbon fumes. The earth was scorched, the waterways dried up, the white egrets disappeared. The roots of the mangrove trees, naked and greedy, waited for a drop of water. Creeping insects of all kinds eked out their slithery existence, leaving behind silver threads of slime on the desiccated waterbed.
Only the sea in its stoic indifference did not cease its endless song." #JewLit
