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Rachel Kadish

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Fiction, Nonfiction

Member Since

March 2014

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I often begin writing when something is bothering me. Years ago, I was thinking about Virginia Woolf’s question: what if Shakespeare had had an equally talented sister?
Woolf’s answer: She died without writing a word.
What, I wondered, would it take for a woman of that era, with that kind of capacious intelligence, not to die without writing a word?
For one thing, she’d have to be a genius at breaking rules.
My novel The Weight of Ink reaches back in time to ask the question: what does it take for a woman not to be defeated when everything around her is telling her to sit down and mind her manners? I started writing with two characters in mind, both women who don’t mind their manners: a contemporary historian named Helen Watt and a seventeenth ...more

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Average rating: 4.12 · 35,139 ratings · 4,883 reviews · 8 distinct works • Similar authors

	The Weight of Ink 4.14 avg rating — 33,941 ratings — published 2017 — 31 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Tolstoy Lied: A Love Story 3.50 avg rating — 755 ratings — published 2006 — 19 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	From a Sealed Room 3.55 avg rating — 230 ratings — published 1998 — 15 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	I Was Here 3.72 avg rating — 201 ratings — published 2014 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The New Diaspora: The Changing Landscape of American Jewish Fiction by Victoria Aarons (Editor), Avinoam J. Patt (Editor), Mark Shechner (Editor) 4.22 avg rating — 9 ratings — published 2014 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Iowa Review 48.1 (Spring 2018) by Harilaos Stecopoulos (Editor), Wayne Koestenbaum, Bob Hicok 4.50 avg rating — 2 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Weight Of Ink it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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“Books. People have no idea how beautiful books are. How they taste on your fingers. How bright everything is when you light it with words.”
― Rachel Kadish, Tolstoy Lied: A Love Story

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“Feminism means having a choice. And feminism doesn't care which choices you make, either. Just that you have them. The point has never been to establish some principled refusal to give yourself to another human being. The point is to make sure you can give yourself--or not give yourself--of your free will.”
― Rachel Kadish

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“Love isn't rest. Love requires you, from time to time, to rip up your soul and replant it. To dare your lover to do the same. To muster sympathy where it seemed impossible. To be, perpetually, two kids joining hands, drawing breath, and deep diving.”
― Rachel Kadish

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~~ Members Choice for April ~~

It is now time to vote on our winning book for the April Member's Choice Book Nomination.

Please note that book covers may not be as shown in the poll. Covers vary on different editions. Please go by the title and author, not the book cover.

Time to vote now for the April Members Choice book selection. Even though this poll opened earlier than the 8th, it will remain open until the end of the day on March 14th.

The Map of Salt and Stars

by Zeyn Joukhadar

15 votes, 19.5%

The Funeral Dress

by Susan Gregg Gilmore

14 votes, 18.2%

The Extraordinary Life of Sam Hell

by Robert Dugoni

13 votes, 16.9%

The Weight of Ink

by Rachel Kadish

13 votes, 16.9%

Home Fire

by Kamila Shamsie

11 votes, 14.3%

The Cactus

by Sarah Haywood

9 votes, 11.7%

The Constant Gardener

by John le Carré

2 votes, 2.6%

77 total votes

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