The Third Daughter: A Novel

From the author of Jerusalem Maiden comes a remarkable story, inspired by little-known true events,about the thousands of young Jewish women who were trafficked into prostitution at the turn of the 20^th century, and whose subjugation helped build Buenos Aires.

The turn of the 20th century findsfourteen-year-old Batya in the Russian countryside, fleeing with her family endless pogroms. Desperate, her fatherleaps at the opportunity to marry Batya to aworldly, wealthy stranger who can guarantee...