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Pearl Abraham


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Pearl Abraham is the author of the novels The Romance Reader and Giving Up America, and the editor of the Dutch anthology Een Sterke Vrouw: Jewish Heroines in Literature. Her work has appeared in Brooklyn Noir, The Michigan Quarterly, Religion in America, Dog Culture: Writers on the Character of Canines, and Forward.

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Average rating: 3.47 · 2,993 ratings · 394 reviews · 8 distinct works • Similar authors
The Romance Reader
3.56 avg rating — 1,805 ratings — published 1995 — 32 editions
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Brooklyn Noir (Akashic Noir)
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3.52 avg rating — 480 ratings — published 2004 — 16 editions
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American Taliban
3.23 avg rating — 335 ratings — published 2010 — 17 editions
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Giving Up America
3.16 avg rating — 258 ratings — published 1998 — 14 editions
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The Seventh Beggar
3.18 avg rating — 120 ratings — published 2005 — 5 editions
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3.29 avg rating — 7 ratings — published 2000
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“When the highest value in a community is loyalty to the greater cause, meaning the continuity of the status quo, all means to this end are imbued with religious significance, and are thereby justified. "Hasidic Noir”
― Pearl Abraham, Brooklyn Noir
tags: community, justification, religion, status-quo
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“I don't want to fight for anything. I want to just be and do, with no one saying they're letting me.”
― Pearl Abraham, The Romance Reader
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“I don't know which is worse, going to the library or stealing and breaking the laws of Shabbat, but I know what the prophet's talking about when he says one sin begets another.”
― Pearl Abraham, The Romance Reader
tags: sin
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