Title: The Sacrifice of Tamar (Readers Guide Editions)
First published: October 4, 2001
Description: A rabbi's wife in New York is raped by a black man, but hides the incident from her husband and they continue sleeping as normal. On becoming pregnant she cannot tell who the father is, so decides against an abortion. The novel traces the consequences. By the author of Sotah.
Subjects: Jewish women, Jews, Blacks, Relations with Jews, Fiction, Jewish families, Rape victims, Fiction, general, Fiction, romance, general, Black people, Families
Places: New York (State), New York, Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.)