Nomi Eve is the author of "The Family Orchard", which was a Book-of-the-Month Club main selection and was nominated for a National Jewish Book Award. She has an MFA in fiction writing from Brown University and has worked as a freelance book reviewer for "The Village Voice" and New York" Newsday". Her stories have appeared in "Glimmer Train Stories", "The Voice Literary Supplement", "Conjunctions", and "The International Quarterly". She is currently a lecturer in the creative writing program at Bryn Mawr College and lives in Philadelphia with her family.
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Yemen in 1920: after passage of the Orphan's Decree, any unbetrothed Jewish child left orphaned will be instantly adopted by the local Muslim community. With her parents' health failing, and no spousal prospects in sight, Adela Damari's situation looks di... SEE MORE