The Lost Girl

Tova Reich

1995

[…] Statistically speaking, in any given week at the school, the rabbi had once calculated, approximately one quarter of these girls, about seventy-five girls in all, had their periods. Could anyone imagine what it must be like to be living in the middle of all that? Sometimes he felt as if he were drowning in a thick soup. The constant smell of…

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Creator Bio

Tova Reich

b. 1942

Tova Reich, born in Liberty, New York, is a novelist and short story writer. In addition to her articles and reviews in periodicals and anthologies, she is the recipient of the Edward Lewis Wallant Award. In 1996, her story “The Lost Girl,” published in Harper’s, won the National Magazine Award for Fiction. She lives near Washington, D.C.

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