![]() But she undermines those sentiments with banal details, like the color of a kitchen table, while skimping on details about her characters’ inner lives. Loigman’s debut novel is concerned with robust sentiments: hope, betrayal, yearning, disappointment. Afterward, of course, nothing is the same. ![]() That night, they make a decision that alters the course of their families’ lives. One winter night when their husbands are away and a blizzard has shut down New York, they both go into labor. Then Rose and Helen get pregnant at the same time. On the other hand, Helen, who is married to the more gregarious Abe, has had four sons but longs for a daughter: she’s lonely in her all-male household. Mort’s wife, Rose, bears three daughters, but Mort is desperate for a son and treats Rose cruelly in the meantime. ![]() The families share work (Mort and Abe run their father’s company together), play, and many meals. Abe’s family lives upstairs, and Mort’s lives downstairs. ![]() Mort and Abe are brothers, and when they buy a Brooklyn brownstone together, their wives become fast friends. A debut novel explores the intertwining lives of two Brooklyn families. ![]()
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