Join Congregation Etz Chayim's book club for our next discussion of... 

“The Third Daughter” by: Talia Carner

Summary

"The turn of the 20th century finds fourteen-year-old Batya in the Russian countryside, fleeing with her family endless pogroms. Desperate, her father leaps at the opportunity to marry Batya to a worldly, wealthy stranger who can guarantee his daughter an easy life and passage to America. Feeling like a princess in a fairytale, Batya leaves her old life behind as she is whisked away to a new world. But soon she discovers that she’s entered a waking nightmare. Her new “husband” does indeed bring her to America: Buenos Aires, a vibrant, growing city in which prostitution is not only legal but deeply embedded in the culture. And now Batya is one of thousands of women tricked and sold into a brothel. As the years pass, Batya forms deep bonds with her “sisters” in the house as well as some men who are both kind and cruel. Through it all, she holds onto one dream: to bring her family to America, where they will be safe from the anti-Semitism that plagues Russia. Just as Batya is becoming a known tango dancer,  she gets an unexpected but dangerous opportunity—to help bring down the criminal network that has enslaved so many young women and has been instrumental in developing Buenos Aires into a major metropolis."

The book is available at these libraries:

Bill and Helen Norrie

The Millennium

West Kildonen

Kaufman Silverberg Library

Also in stock at:

Chapters Indigo @ Kenaston

Chapters Indigo @ Polo park

Online at Amazon, Kindle, & Kobo

 

This first book club meeting will be dedicated in memory of Judith Putter and Henny Paritsky z"l who passed away this year.