I have no idea what’s going to happen, but I know that I won’t fall asleep tonight until I finish it, and I know it’s going to be hard. It’s beautifully written and completely believable (and also wickedly funny in places). This is a book about a crime against a child, a tragedy, and a spectacularly unjust cover-up, and (like all the best books) it’s about a lot of other things, too. Today, she considers telling the truth about what she saw - but knows that the consequences of doing so will be catastrophic, because her community insists on silence and has many, many mechanisms built into its social structure to enforce that silence. It’s called Hush and it’s by Eishes Chayil, which is a pseudonym that means woman of valor in Yiddish.Ī teenaged woman in a Hasidic community in Brooklyn, preparing herself for marriage, remembers an act of abuse within the community that she witnessed years ago. I’m reading a book that’s gutting me and I can’t put it down I had to hide it under a pile of blankets today in order to get any work done and I think you should read it, too. Posted Janu& filed under books, storms, writing.
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