Louisa Paperback by Simone Zelitch

Product Details

• Publisher: Berkley (2001-12-01)
• Language: English
• Paperback: 400 pages
• ISBN-13: 9780425181959
• Item Weight: 324.32 grams
• Dimensions: 20.32 x 13.13 x 2.67 cm

This award-winning novel takes readers to postwar Israel, introducing them to a mother and daughter-in-law with an unusual relationship and offering a unique perspective on Jewish identity and experience.

About the Author

Simone Zelitch’s first novel, The Confession of Jack Straw (1991), won the Hopwood Award. A graduate of the MFA program at the University of Michigan, she was a Peace Corps volunteer in Hungary. Zelitch, a recipient of a Pennsylvania Council for the Arts Fellowship in Fiction, currently teaches at Community College of Philadelphia.