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Rachel Kadish

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Fiction, Nonfiction

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March 2014

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I often begin writing when something is bothering me. Years ago, I was thinking about Virginia Woolf’s question: what if Shakespeare had had an equally talented sister?
Woolf’s answer: She died without writing a word.
What, I wondered, would it take for a woman of that era, with that kind of capacious intelligence, not to die without writing a word?
For one thing, she’d have to be a genius at breaking rules.
My novel The Weight of Ink reaches back in time to ask the question: what does it take for a woman not to be defeated when everything around her is telling her to sit down and mind her manners? I started writing with two characters in mind, both women who don’t mind their manners: a contemporary historian named Helen Watt and a seventeenth ...more

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	The Weight of Ink 4.14 avg rating — 41,229 ratings — published 2017 — 33 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Tolstoy Lied: A Love Story 3.53 avg rating — 851 ratings — published 2006 — 17 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	From a Sealed Room 3.58 avg rating — 283 ratings — published 1998 — 13 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	I Was Here 3.71 avg rating — 223 ratings — published 2014 — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The New Diaspora: The Changing Landscape of American Jewish Fiction by Victoria Aarons (Editor), Avinoam J. Patt (Editor), Mark Shechner (Editor) 4.42 avg rating — 12 ratings — published 2014 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Iowa Review 48.1 (Spring 2018) by Harilaos Stecopoulos (Editor), Wayne Koestenbaum, Bob Hicok 3.33 avg rating — 3 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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“Books. People have no idea how beautiful books are. How they taste on your fingers. How bright everything is when you light it with words.”
― Rachel Kadish, Tolstoy Lied: A Love Story

tags: books

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“Feminism means having a choice. And feminism doesn't care which choices you make, either. Just that you have them. The point has never been to establish some principled refusal to give yourself to another human being. The point is to make sure you can give yourself--or not give yourself--of your free will.”
― Rachel Kadish

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“Never underestimate the passion of a lonely mind.”
― Rachel Kadish, The Weight of Ink

tags: thought-provoking

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Polls

August BoTM Nominations ~ Historical Fiction ~1st Poll
Top 5 Books Move Onto Final Round

Black Cake

by Charmaine Wilkerson

4 votes, 13.8%

The Last House on the Street

by Diane Chamberlain

4 votes, 13.8%

Mustard Seed

by Laila Ibrahim

3 votes, 10.3%

The Weight of Ink

by Rachel Kadish

3 votes, 10.3%

Flight of the Sparrow

by Amy Belding Brown

3 votes, 10.3%

The Nickel Boys

by Colson Whitehead

3 votes, 10.3%

The House Girl

by Tara Conklin

2 votes, 6.9%

Snow Flower and the Secret Fan

by Lisa See

2 votes, 6.9%

Jackie and Maria: A Novel of Jackie Kennedy & Maria Callas

by Gill Paul

1 vote, 3.4%

Harlem Shuffle

by Colson Whitehead

1 vote, 3.4%

The Lost Letter

by Jillian Cantor

1 vote, 3.4%

The Rebellion of Miss Lucy Ann Lobdell

by William Klaber

1 vote, 3.4%

Song Yet Sung

by James McBride

1 vote, 3.4%

A Prayer for Owen Meany

by John Irving

0 votes, 0.0%

29 total votes

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