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Bread Givers

Bread Givers

Yezierska, Anzia
Eisenberg, Emma Copley

Paperback

Series: Modern Library Torchbearers

Classic FictionGeneral Fiction

Publisher Price: $19.00

PREORDER - Expected ship date January 12, 2027

ISBN10: 0593445805
ISBN13: 9780593445808
Publisher: Modern Library
Published: Jan 12 2027
Pages: 288
Weight: 0.57
Height: 0.69 Width: 5.19 Depth: 8.00
Language: English
A determined young woman challenges her Jewish immigrant family's rigid norms in this raw, uncontrollable (The New York Times) classic American novel

More and more I began to think inside myself, I don't want to sell herring for the rest of my days. I want to learn something. I want to do something. I want some day to make myself for a person and come among people. But how can I do it if I live in this hell house of Father's preaching and Mother's complaining?

Sara Smolinsky and her sisters are bread givers: They work to support their mother, who once lived a life of luxury, and their father, who cares more about studying the Torah than feeding his family. As Sara watches her father trade her sisters' futures for his own financial gain, she sets out to find happiness for herself, even if that happiness goes against the traditions she was raised to follow.

Originally published in 1925, Bread Givers draws inspiration from Anzia Yezierska's own experiences growing up in an Orthodox Jewish family in New York City. This witty, fiercely hopeful novel tells the story of a young woman searching for herself as she navigates Old World expectations and New World dreams, the misery of defeat and the glory of success, and finding what it means to be a person among people.

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