Rachel Kadish

A deeply affecting parable of law, mercy, and communal judgment centered on one woman's fate in interwar Vilna-from the acclaimed author of Sons and Daughters, hailed by the New York Times as one of the ten best works of historical fiction of 2025"I am an agunah, rabbi, an agunah. For more than fifteen years I've waited for my husband to come back from the war. But he has not come and I cannot wait any longer .