WILD GRAPES
Historical Fiction
When her husband, Sender, fails to send money to bring Bluma Rappaport and her three daughters to America in 1918, Bluma takes matters into her own hands. She and her girls show up on Sender’s doorstep, which turns out to be broken, just one of the problems with the derelict farm he purchased. Though inspired by the Jewish back-to-the-land movement, Sender has been spending more time studying Torah than he has plowing and harvesting. Facing many challenges, Bluma relies on her wits and wry sense of humor to pull the family through.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR Wild Grapes is Miriam Flock’s first novel, but her poetry has appeared widely including in Poetry, Salmagundi, and Chicago Review, and in specifically Jewish publications such as Berru, CCAR: The Reform Jewish Quarterly, and Lifecycles: Jewish Women on Biblical Themes in Contemporary Life.