With this edition, we are able to appreciate fully …

With this edition, we are able to appreciate fully how unique the novel was for its time, and why it is relevant for anyone interested in understanding how the awakening of a feminist sensibility took shape in this distinct cultural and historical climate….that is, Jewish North Africa in the 1920s, during French colonization—when many Jewish women began to question centuries old norms and expectations in what was traditionally an extremely patriarchal culture.