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Our next Hadassah Book Group will be on Sunday, May 9th at 4:00 PM MST via Zoom. LINK TO FOLLOW LATER. We have picked Alice Hoffman’s The Marriage of Opposites as our read. “Growing up on idyllic St. Thomas in the early 1800s, Rachel dreams of life in faraway Paris. Rachel’s mother, a pillar of their small refugee community of Jews who escaped the Inquisition, has never forgiven her daughter for being a difficult girl who refuses to live by the rules. Growing up, Rachel’s salvation is their maid Adelle’s belief in her strengths, and her deep, life-long friendship with Jestine, Adelle’s daughter. But Rachel’s life is not her own. She is married off to a widower with three children to save her father’s business. When her older husband dies suddenly and his handsome, much younger nephew, Frédérick, arrives from France to settle the estate, Rachel seizes her own life story, beginning a defiant, passionate love affair that sparks a scandal that affects all of her family, including her favorite son, who will become one of the greatest artists of France.”
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Mt Sinai Synagogue, 2610 Pioneer Ave, Cheyenne, WY 82001, United States