Research Catalog

Title

On division / Goldie Goldbloom.

Author

Goldbloom, Goldie

Publication

• New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2019.
• ©2019

Items in the Library & Off-site

Details

Description

265 pages; 22 cm

Summary

• Through one woman's life at a moment of surprising change, the award-winning author Goldie Goldbloom tells a deeply affecting, morally insightful story and offers a rare look inside Brooklyn's Chasidic community. In Williamsburg, Brooklyn, just a block or two up from the East River on Division Avenue, Surie Eckstein is soon to be a great-grandmother. Her ten children range in age from thirteen to thirty-nine. Her in-laws, postwar immigrants from Romania, live on the first floor of their house. Her daughter Tzila Ruchel lives on the second. She and Yidel, a scribe in such demand that he makes only a few Torah scrolls a year, live on the third. Wed when Surie was sixteen, they have a happy marriage and a full life, and, at the ages of fifty-seven and sixty-two, they are looking forward to some quiet time together. Into this life of counted blessings comes a surprise. Surie is pregnant. Pregnant at fifty-seven. It is a shock. And at her age, at this stage, it is an aberration, a shift in the proper order of things, and a public display of private life. She feels exposed, ashamed. She is unable to share the news, even with her husband. And so for the first time in her life, she has a secret--a secret that slowly separates her from the community. Goldie Goldbloom's On Division is an excavation of one woman's life, a story of awakening at middle age, and a thoughtful examination of the dynamics of self and collective identity. It is a steady-eyed look inside insular communities that also celebrates their comforts. It is a rare portrait of a long, happy marriage. And it is an unforgettable new novel from a writer whose imagination is matched only by the depth of her humanity.
• In Williamsburg, Brooklyn, just a block or two up from the East River on Division Avenue, Surie Eckstein is soon to be a great-grandmother. Her in-laws, postwar immigrants from Romania, live on the first floor. Her daughter Tzila Ruchel lives on the second. She and Yidel, a scribe in such demand that he makes only a few Torah scrolls a year, live on the third. Wed when Surie was sixteen, they have a happy marriage and a full life, and are looking forward to some quiet time together. When Surie discovers she is pregnant-- at fifty-seven-- it is a shock. She feels ashamed, unable to share the news even with her husband. -- adapted from jacket

Subjects

• Jewish women
• Jewish families
• Self-realization in women
• Families
• Life change events
• Secrecy
• Self-realization in women > Fiction
• Families > Fiction
• FICTION / Literary
• Life change events > Fiction
• Fiction
• Novels
• Jewish women > New York (State) > New York > Biography
• Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.) > Fiction
• Domestic fiction
• Secrecy > Fiction
• Jewish fiction
• FICTION / LGBT / General
• Hasidim > New York (State) > New York
• Hasidim > Fiction
• FICTION / Jewish
• Married people > Fiction
• Jewish families > New York (State) > New York
• New York (State) > New York > Brooklyn

Genre/Form

• Novels.
• Domestic fiction.
• Jewish fiction.
• Fiction.

Language (note)

• There are 2 different versions of the genealogical chart, 1 in English, the other in Hebrew.

Call Number

JFD 20-137

ISBN

• 9780374175313
• 0374175314

LCCN

2018060811

OCLC

1080553849

Author

Goldbloom, Goldie, author.

Title

On division / Goldie Goldbloom.

Publisher

New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2019.

Copyright Date

©2019

Edition

First edition.

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Language

There are 2 different versions of the genealogical chart, 1 in English, the other in Hebrew.

Research Call Number

JFD 20-137