Missing

Winner of the 1991 Harold U. Ribalow Award for Best Jewish Fiction and one of the “Twenty-five Best Books of the Year” (VLS, The Literary Supplement of The Village Voice), Missing is a portrait of Rivke Vasilevsky, a widow alone in her Brooklyn apartment, where for decades she never had a moment to herself. She spends her days at the kitchen table, nursing a glass of hot water and lemon, listening for the telephone, and reconsidering her life–from her childhood in Poland to her long marriage, from her children’s childhoods to her relationships with her grandchildren, and especially her friendship with Rachel, a photographer, who tells her grandmother, “You’re like a Communist country, always revising history.”
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