Title: An almost perfect moment
Description: Coming of age in post-Eisenhower Brooklyn, Jewish teen Valentine Kessler struggles with love, enmity, and betrayal in the shadow of her mother's sharp-eyed band of Mah Jongg players.
Subjects: Fiction, Jewish families, Mothers and daughters, Teenage girls, Teenage pregnancy, Mothers and daughters, fiction, Jews, fiction, New york (n.y.), fiction, Fiction, general, Domestic fiction
Places: Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.)