In this heart-warming and witty debut novel from a ‘Jewish Jane Austen’ (Jill Kargman), three sisters chase love and grapple with the growing pains of young womanhood as they seek their place within and beyond their Syrian Jewish Brooklyn community.
The Cohen sisters are at a crossroads. And not just because the obedient middle sister, Fortune, has secretly started to question her engagement and impending wedding, even as her family scrambles to prepare for the big day. Nina, the rebellious eldest sister, is single at 26 (and growing cobwebs by her community's standards) when she runs into an old friend who offers her a chance to choose a different path. Meanwhile, Lucy, the youngest, a senior in high school, has started sneaking around with a charming older bachelor.
As Fortune inches ever closer to the chuppah, the sisters find themselves in a tug of war between tradition and modernity, reckoning with what their tight-knit community wants—and with what they want for themselves.
Sisters of Fortune is a sister story about dating, ambition, and coming-of-age within an immigrant community whose affection is endearing, maddening, and never boring. This novel reckons with the roots that entwine our lives to the ones who love us best, the dreams we hold for our daughters—and the winding paths we take to our own happy endings.
Genre: General Fiction
The Cohen sisters are at a crossroads. And not just because the obedient middle sister, Fortune, has secretly started to question her engagement and impending wedding, even as her family scrambles to prepare for the big day. Nina, the rebellious eldest sister, is single at 26 (and growing cobwebs by her community's standards) when she runs into an old friend who offers her a chance to choose a different path. Meanwhile, Lucy, the youngest, a senior in high school, has started sneaking around with a charming older bachelor.
As Fortune inches ever closer to the chuppah, the sisters find themselves in a tug of war between tradition and modernity, reckoning with what their tight-knit community wants—and with what they want for themselves.
Sisters of Fortune is a sister story about dating, ambition, and coming-of-age within an immigrant community whose affection is endearing, maddening, and never boring. This novel reckons with the roots that entwine our lives to the ones who love us best, the dreams we hold for our daughters—and the winding paths we take to our own happy endings.
Genre: General Fiction
Praise for this book
"Perceptive and entertaining, Sisters of Fortune is a bold debut novel. Never before have readers seen three generations of Syrian Jewish women rolling yebra (grape leaves) side by side in the kitchen, passing down community values and female expectations like just another treasured family recipe." - Corie Adjmi
"An absolute joy of a novel about a most enviable family, this is a book to savor--a feast for the heart and mind. Read it if you yearn to be immersed in matriarchy at its finest." - Elisa Albert
"Esther Chehebar is a Jewish Jane Austen exploring the universal themes of sisterhood, advantageous marriage, and community dynamics." - Jill Kargman
"A warm, wise and utterly enjoyable novel that invites us into the lives of three vibrant sisters, one big-hearted family and a fascinating, close-knit community. Sisters of Fortune is a real delight." - Tova Mirvis
"An absolute joy of a novel about a most enviable family, this is a book to savor--a feast for the heart and mind. Read it if you yearn to be immersed in matriarchy at its finest." - Elisa Albert
"Esther Chehebar is a Jewish Jane Austen exploring the universal themes of sisterhood, advantageous marriage, and community dynamics." - Jill Kargman
"A warm, wise and utterly enjoyable novel that invites us into the lives of three vibrant sisters, one big-hearted family and a fascinating, close-knit community. Sisters of Fortune is a real delight." - Tova Mirvis
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