The Cohen sis­ters are at a cross­roads. And not just because the obe­di­ent mid­dle sis­ter, For­tune, has secret­ly start­ed to ques­tion her engage­ment and impend­ing wed­ding, even as her fam­i­ly scram­bles to pre­pare for the big day. Nina, the rebel­lious eldest sis­ter, is sin­gle at 26 (and grow­ing cob­webs by her com­mu­ni­ty’s stan­dards) when she runs into an old friend who offers her a chance to choose a dif­fer­ent path. Mean­while, Lucy, the youngest, a senior in high school, has start­ed sneak­ing around with a charm­ing old­er bach­e­lor.

As For­tune inch­es ever clos­er to the chup­pah, the sis­ters find them­selves in a tug of war between tra­di­tion and moder­ni­ty, reck­on­ing with what their tight-knit com­mu­ni­ty wants — and with what they want for them­selves.

Sis­ters of For­tune is a sis­ter sto­ry about dat­ing, ambi­tion, and com­ing-of-age with­in an immi­grant com­mu­ni­ty whose affec­tion is endear­ing, mad­den­ing, and nev­er bor­ing. This nov­el reck­ons with the roots that entwine our lives to the ones who love us best, the dreams we hold for our daugh­ters — and the wind­ing paths we take to our own hap­py endings.