Foreword This Week Celebrates “New Soil for American Jewish Fiction”

Foreword This Week - February 19, 2015

“In March, [Alan Cheuse] joins forces with Fig Tree Books, and its focus on fiction that captures the American Jewish experience, through the release of Prayers for the Living.

First published in 1986 as The Grandmothers’ Club, this newly revised book is told from the perspective of Minnie Bloch, a Jewish grandmother coming to terms with her family’s slow disintegration. In FTW’s interview…we’ll let Cheuse tell us more about his story and the mission of Fig Tree Books.”

Read more in Foreword This Week.