
Disobedience
by Naomi Alderman
Taste attributes: dramaromancefresh & originalrealisticlinearglossyenclosedemotive & stirringcoming of agecomplex relationshipempowerment/personal growth
Boxlist takeA realistic, moving novel, otherwise balanced. Best if you like stories that hit hard.
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Pace: balanced · Originality: balanced · Tone: balanced · Weight: balanced · Realism: true to life · Story: balanced · Structure: linear · Look: balanced · Scale: balanced · Emotional punch: stirringHow we score
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3.8 / 5
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About This Book
By the age of 32, Ronit has left London and transformed her life. She has become a cigarette-smoking, wise-cracking, New York career woman, who is in love with a married man.But when Ronit's father dies she is called back into the very different world of her childhood, a world she thought she had left far behind. The orthodox Jewish suburb of Hendon, north London is outraged by Ronit and her provocative ways.
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- Author
- Naomi Alderman
- Published
- 2006
- Pages
- 240
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- Open Library
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