The Ladies Auxiliary

Tova Mirvis

1999

Mrs. Levy made it her business to be our eyes and ears, the supplier of all information and news. Her job would be easy this time—she had the good fortune to live directly across the street from Batsheva. She walked over and knocked on the front door, but there was no answer. Mrs. Levy couldn’t begin to guess where Batsheva had gone, and she…

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Tova Mirvis

b. 1972

Tova Mirvis, an American writer living in Newton, Massachusetts, is the author of two novels, both of which explore the contemporary Orthodox Jewish community. The roots of Mirvis’s family in Memphis, Tennessee, go back to the 1800s. Her first novel, The Ladies Auxiliary, was a national bestseller.

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