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The Ladies Auxiliary
A Literary Fiction Novel by Tova Mirvis
Subgenres:
- Jewish Fiction,
- Religious Fiction,
- Small-Town Fiction
This book is for you if you're into...
- Insider looks at Orthodox Jewish communities in the American South
- Outsiders shaking up tight-knit religious circles
- Generational rifts between tradition and restless youth
In this remarkable and assured debut, Tova Mirvis tells the story of the close-knit, carefully structured world of the Orthodox community in Memphis, Tennessee, a world that unravels when Batsheva, newly widowed and a convert to Judaism, and her five-year-old daughter, Ayala, move in.
Batsheva is free-spirited and artistic, and at first the women of the ladies auxiliary discover in her a passion for the traditions and rituals of Judaism which have become stale and routine to them. But when Batsheva becomes close with the restless high-school girls she teaches who are eager to catch glimpses of the non-Kosher world outside, and befriends, maybe a little too intimately, the beloved Rabbi's only son, Yosef, feathers begin to ruffle.
When events come to a head, and Batsheva's past is revealed, the women's allegiances begin to split over whether Batsheva should be forced out of the community.
Batsheva is an unforgettable character, one who makes her claims on the reader's heart from the first page. The Ladies Auxiliary, beautifully and skillfully told, shows what happens when the outside world leans on a closed community so intent on keeping its children inside its tight walls that it cannot see it is losing them.
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