In that book I wanted to write about the conflict between tradition and modernity, and also about marriage and dreams and belief and doubt. My second novel, The Outside World, is also set in an Orthodox Jewish world, and is about two families whose children marry each other. Being away from home enabled me to look back and it and explore my own ambivalence about belonging. This became the subject of m first novel, The Ladies Auxiliary, which I started writing when I no longer living in Memphis. My third novel Visible City began when I moved from New York City I grew up in the small Orthodox Jewish community in Memphis, Tennessee, where I felt both what was grounding about being part of a such an enclosed world as well as what was stifling. I grew up in the small Orthodox Jewish community in Memphis, Tennessee, where I felt both what was grounding about being part of a such an enclosed world as well as what was stifling.
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