The Free Thinkers

In The Free Thinkers, Layle Silbert writes about lives lost and found among New York's early Jewish immigrants. In the first novella, she draws a portrait of Ida, a factory forelady and innate feminist determined to find freedom in a man's world. In the second, Silbert chronicles the lives of three sisters from the Ukraine as they find husbands and start their own families in a mysterious and disquieting new land.