Book 2004

almost perfect moment

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Publisher: Ecco
Language: English
Published: 2004

Fiction
Jewish families
Mothers and daughters
Teenage girls
Teenage pregnancy
Mothers and daughters, fiction
Jews, fiction
New york (n.y.), fiction

Coming of age in post-Eisenhower Brooklyn, Jewish teen Valentine Kessler struggles with love, enmity, and betrayal in the shadow of her mother's sharp-eyed band of Mah Jongg players.