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In these twelve linked short stories-pieces at once painful and yet also everyday slices of life-women and girls struggle to find their way amid cultural constraints.

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When Casey gets into trouble hanging out with the wrong crowd in New Orleans, her parents decide to move back to their Orthodox Syrian Jewish community in Brooklynwhere, swayed by the communitys Middle Eastern values and her parents traditional wishes, Casey marries Michael at eighteen, thinking she can adjust to Sephardic ways. But can she