An almost perfect moment
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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.
FictionJewish familiesMothers and daughtersTeenage girlsTeenage pregnancyMothers and daughters, fictionJews, fictionNew york (n.y.), fictionFiction, generalDomestic fiction