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 c
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ISBN: 9781451693591
Physical Description:print369 pages ; 23 cm.
Edition:First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.
Publisher:New York, New York : Simon & Schuster, 2015.
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