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A review by that_bookish_life
The Marriage Box by Corie Adjmi
3.5
Casey is a third generation Syrian-American Jew living a fairly secular teenage life in New Orleans in the 70s, but after Casey has a brush with the law her parents become concerned and move back to the tight-knit Syrian Orthodox Jewish community in Brooklyn, New York from which they're from. Instead of cheerleading and college applications Casey is thrust into an opulent if oppressive world, attending yeshiva (an Orthodox Jewish religious school) where many of the girls drop out to be married at age 18. Unexpectedly, Casey falls in love with a man within the community and finds herself doing just this.
<i>The Marriage Box</i> is a coming of age novel that reads like a memoir. It offers an interesting look at the New York Syrian Jewish community of the 1980s as well as a young woman caught between cultures. The plot doesn't really offer any surprises, but the story is interesting and goes down easy.
<i>The Marriage Box</i> is a coming of age novel that reads like a memoir. It offers an interesting look at the New York Syrian Jewish community of the 1980s as well as a young woman caught between cultures. The plot doesn't really offer any surprises, but the story is interesting and goes down easy.