Beyond the Pale - Elana Dykewomon torrent

Category: Adults, Historical Fiction, LGBT, Lesbian
Language: EnglishKeywords: Historical Fiction Jewish Lesbian LGBTQ Queer

Written by Elana Dykewomon
Read by Elana Dykewomon
Format: M4B
Bitrate: 64 Kbps
Unabridged

Length: 15 hrs and 39 mins
Unabridged Audiobook
Release Date:09-25-13
Publisher: Audible Studios
Number of Files 1
FileType M4B Chapterized
Bitrate 64kb
Sample Rate 22,050kHz
inAudible True Decrypt .AAX Lossless Conversion

Audible Editor Reviews

Beyond the Pale is a touching, lyrical story that follows two immigrant women from the Pale settlement in Russia to New York. Dykewomom presents a powerful look into the experience of being Jewish and a lesbian, while also looking at the greater immigrant experience against the backdrop of poverty. It’s a treat to have the writer herself perform this audiobook. Because they are her own words, she easily captures the rhythms of the poetic language. Meanwhile, her voice is so loving toward the characters that is hard not to be swept away by this beautiful, moving audiobook.
Publisher’s Summary

Beyond the Pale - winner of the Lambda Literary Award - tells the stories of two Jewish women living through times of darkness and inhumanity in the early 20th century, capturing their undaunted love and courage in luminous and moving prose. The richly textured novel details Gutke Gurvich’s odyssey from her apprenticeship as a midwife in a Russian shtetl to her work in the suffrage movement in New York.
Interwoven with her tale is that Chava Meyer, who was attended by Gurvich at her birth and grew up to survive the pogrom that took the lives of her parents. Throughout the story, historical background plays a large part: Jewish faith and traditions, the practice of midwifery, the horrific conditions in prerevolutionary Russia and New York sweatshops, and the determined work of labor unionists and suffragists.