Stories of Bravery

In Jessica Shattuck’s novel, The Women in the Castle, the widow of a resister murdered in a failed assassination attempt on Adolph Hitler plans to uphold the promise she made to her husband’s brave conspirators: to find and protect their wives. Rachel Kadish‘s The Weight of Ink is a sophisticated work of historical fiction about women separated by centuries, and the choices and sacrifices they must make in order to reconcile the life of the heart and mind. The Book of Separation: A Memoir is Tova Mirvis’s account of leaving her Orthodox Jewish community and marriage at the age of forty to forge a new life of her own making.