Rachel Benjamin, heroine and narrator, is the rebellious oldest daughter of a Hasidic rabbi in upstate New York, who manages to break all the prohibitions Orthodox Judaism imposes on ''sinning Eves.'' The Romance Reader is a remarkable first novel, written by Pearl Abraham with great subtlety and warmth. A


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