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Ebook About ** Winner of the 2020 Jewish Fiction Award **“A novel of wisdom and uncertainty, of love in its greater and lesser forms, and of the struggle between how it should be and how it is. It is impossible not to be moved.”—Amy Bloom, author of White Houses "This book brings the reader into the heart of a close-knit Jewish family and their joys, loves, and sorrows . . . A marvelous book by a masterful writer.”—Audrey Niffenegger, author of Her Fearful Symmetry and The Time Traveler’s Wife "As beautiful as it is unexpected.”—Claire Messud, author of The Burning GirlThrough one woman's life at a moment of surprising change, the award-winning author Goldie Goldbloom tells a deeply affecting, morally insightful story and offers a rare look inside Brooklyn's Chasidic communityOn Division Avenue, just a block or two up from the East River in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, Surie Eckstein is soon to be a great-grandmother. Her ten children range in age from thirteen to thirty-nine. Her in-laws, postwar immigrants from Romania, live on the first floor of their house. Her daughter Tzila Ruchel lives on the second. She and Yidel, a scribe in such demand that he makes only a few Torah scrolls a year, live on the third. Wed when Surie was sixteen, they have a happy marriage and a full life, and, at the ages of fifty-seven and sixty-two, they are looking forward to some quiet time together. Into this life of counted blessings comes a surprise. Surie is pregnant. Pregnant at fifty-seven. It is a shock. And at her age, at this stage, it is an aberration, a shift in the proper order of things, and a public display of private life. She feels exposed, ashamed. She is unable to share the news, even with her husband. And so for the first time in her life, she has a secret—a secret that slowly separates her from the community.Into this life of counted blessings comes a surprise. Surie is pregnant. Pregnant at fifty-seven. It is a shock. And at her age, at this stage, it is an aberration, a shift in the proper order of things, and a public display of private life. She feels exposed, ashamed. She is unable to share the news, even with her husband. And so for the first time in her life, she has a secret—a secret that slowly separates her from the community.Book On Division: A Novel Review :
Surie Eckstein is 58 years old and pregnant with twins. Already the mother of 9 living children, having married at the age of 16, she's the grandmother of who-can-count-that-high, and is a soon-to-be great grandmother. Her husband of over 40 years, Yidel, is a noted Torah scribe and they live in Williamsburg, New York. If you're in the know, you've already figured out that the Eckstein family are Hasidic Jews.Hasidic Jews live totally different lives than most Jews. Their communities are very strict; children don't go to public schools but learn at religious schools. There are no TVs and no computers. Laptops are referred to as "lep tips" and surreptitious forbidden activities can be punished by literal expulsion from the community. A man or woman who strays from community mores will find their children unmarriagable to other Hasids and themselves shunned at "shil" (shul). Frankly, it all sounds like a difficult way to live; everything is open to interpretation by "the community".Surie and Yidal are beloved in their community. They live in a multi-family house and Surie takes care of her blind, aged in-laws and her multitude of grandchildren. She is seen as "happy" but is secretly mourning the loss of her son, Lipa, who died at 22 as a victim of a hate crime. He had been thrown out of the community for his homosexuality and disease. This was in 2003, when AIDS was known not to be communicable through touch, but the family was briefly shunned after his death. The couple is devoted to each other and their family but are slowly growing apart because they still can't talk about Lipa and his death. But not only can't they talk about Lipa, Surie also cannot tell her husband she's pregnant - at the age of 58, with twins.Author Goldie Goldbloom is herself a Hasidic Jew. She's the mother of eight children but has written three or four novels. Her portrayal of life in a tightly wrapped community where appearance and adherence to rules is everything is almost suffocating to the reader. But she draws a wonderful picture of Surie Eckstein, who is a woman with secrets and is scared stiff the community and her famil will discover them. All the main characters are nuanced, as they are in really well-written books. I don't think you'll forget Surie Eckstein very soon. I absolutely loved Goldie Goldbloom's other novel, THE PAPERBARK SHOE, a real literary potboiler, with its abandoned albino artistic heroine, set in the unforgiving Outback of Australia during WWII. It was a book of considerable scope with a number of unexpected twists and turns, filled with cruelty, despair, quirky characters and even some kinky sex. It was - IS - a real one-of-a-kind sort of book. And now, several years later, we have this book, ON DIVISION, and lemme tell ya, it is NOTHING like her first book. But that doesn't matter. I absolutely loved this one too.ON DIVISION takes its title from the main street running through Williamsburg, the Jewish section of Brooklyn, the book's setting. The time is the present, and the book's heroine, Surie Eckstein, is a devoutly Chassidic Jew, mother of ten, grandmother many times over, and wife of Yidel, a much sought after and respected scribe who creates traditional Torahs, employing careful calligraphy on animal skins. At fifty-seven, Surie has a secret. She is pregnant, with twins. Her youngest child is now thirteen. Since then she has survived cancer and a double mastectomy. She feels, at first, mostly shame, and is afraid to tell her husband - indeed, she is afraid to tell anyone. She forms an alliance with Val, the single, childless midwife who has delivered all of her children. Val urges Surie to tell Yidel, but Surie resists telling, putting it off repeatedly. In the meantime, she becomes Val's helper in the Manhattan clinic just across the bridge, and even begins to study midwifery. Books and study, and even any talk of sex or pregnancy, we learn, are strictly forbidden, but Surie continues to progress and learn about all of it. She becomes a valuable asset as a Yiddish interpreter for all the pregnant Jewish mothers who come to the clinic.Unlike Goldbloom's previous book, Surie's story is intensely local and very personal. We get a crash course in the life of Chassidic Jewish women, a very cloistered, "apart" sort of life, where the men grow beards and the sidelocks, while the women must shave their heads and wear wigs and scarves, or cloth turbans. They have their own stores and temples and adhere strictly to the teachings of the Torah. Surie's other secret sorrow is her son, Lipa, gay and flamboyant, who was banished not just by their community, but even by his father. Because the Chassidic community has both its good and bad sides. On the good side, children are all-important. Here's how Surie herself put it, remembering the birth of her tenth child -"Why should I scream, why should I moan, when I am doing the exact thing I was made for? When I am fulfilling my part in creation? Thank God I know my place in the world. The Torah speaks about many things, but always, always it talks about the children that come forth, the children that one is to sacrifice for. Every part of my life is turned towards children, the having of children, the raising of children."But the community is unforgiving and intolerant of those who are "different," and so Lipa, with his flagrantly gay ways, was forced out. He was Surie's favorite (though she knows 'favorites' are also forbidden), and, though she is supposed to act as though he never existed, she cannot get Lipa out of her heart and mind, reasoning -"... what, after all, was so terrible about loving a man instead of a woman? Did the Torah forbid loving? She did not know, did not want to know, what Lipa had done behind closed doors. But then, she did not know what her friends, women she had known for fifty years, did behind closed doors either. None of them spoke about such things. How she wished the veil of secrecy had remained drawn for Lipa too."In a conversation she has with Val, Surie blurts out her secret, along with her real feelings -"I had a child who was both gay and not religious, and though he pushed me hard, though everything he did felt like he took a razor to my flesh, I could not stop loving him. And if I had the chance again, I would bring him home and put him to sleep in the best bed, and I would tell him to bring home his boyfriend and I would tell all of my children and my grandchildren to smile at him and to love him and never to stop. And that is because a parent's love does not end. Should not end."Yes. But the Chassidic community was not that forgiving, could be cruel even, and Surie knows this. She sees this again in the case of a thirteen year-old girl who comes to the clinic, impregnated by an "unlicensed" therapist she had been sent to, a community elder in his sixties. And when she tries to report the man, she is further disappointed, as she is by Yidel, who disapproves of her studying to be a midwife. She is also extremely disappointed in his inability to see that she herself is pregnant again.The focus in this book is a very narrow one, centered as it is in this small, insular religious community of Brooklyn. I do not want to give anything else away, but trust me, there is unbelievable tension - and suspense - in Surie's very personal story. I was quickly caught up in it. And I suspect anyone who appreciates good writing and, especially, good characters, will love this book as much as I did. My very highest recommendation. 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