![]() ![]() This book, however, is so much more than its plot. Dykewomon’s characters are amazing mothers, daughters, friends, lovers, and enemies all intertwine to become part of one fascinating world whether here or in Russia. Their paths cross again, Gurvich and her wife mentoring Mayer in her coming out process in New York City’s Lower East Side against the backdrop of women’s suffrage and labor union movements, culminating in the Triangle Shirtwaist Company fire. Both find their way to America, Gurvich along with her wife Dovid (always attired in men’s clothing) and Mayer after her mother is raped and killed during a pogrom. Gutke Gurvich is a midwife in the Pale of Settlement in Russia, delivering one Chava Mayer. How wonderful it is to have this powerful, moving chronicle of Jewish life in imperialist Russia and America once again accessible. Elana Dykewomon’s 1998 Lambda Literary Award winner B eyond the Pale is finally back in print and available for the first time in a number of years. ![]() I didn’t mean for this to be the week for historical fiction, but the coincidence-and the news-is happy indeed. ![]()
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