The Kiddush Ladies
Life-long Jewish friends Naomi, Miriam, and Becky are approaching middle-age gracefully and are content—despite a few hot flashes and mood swings—until life tosses each woman a crisis…
When Becky, the daughter of Holocaust survivors, learns of her only son’s engagement to a non-Jew, she rallies against the marriage and becomes obsessed with finding him a Jewish bride.
Naomi—whose husband left her for a man, crushing her small amount of self-confidence—is stuck with a dead-end job and a big house in a neighborhood filled with couples. She hates the loneliness of weekends and the empty side of the king-size bed.
Miriam, an only child of parents who were also only children, struggles with the fact that she has no blood relatives besides her children. She recognizes that it’s siblings who connect the past, the present, and the future, and the closest thing she has to sisters are Becky and Naomi.
Then a dusty discovery delivers a potentially lethal blow to their friendship. While two of the women fight to save the relationship, one desires nothing more than its demise.
“The Kiddush Ladies emphasizes how our faith structures our relationships, yet how our own actions and loyalties play a heavy-handed role in our destinies. It shows how a refusal to compromise in the face of change can yield its own set of unintended consequences. In this story, each reaction causes a series of emotional dominoes to fall, until all three women and their families are irrevocably changed, shedding light on the delicate correlation between fate and forgiveness.”
— Lauri Wellington, Acquisitions Editor for Black Opal Books