Sis­ters of For­tune by Esther Chehebar

“Very ear­ly in Esther Chehebar’s Sis­ters of For­tune, bride-to-be For­tune Cohen finds her­self with some unex­pect­ed time on her hands. She decides to curl up with one of her old­er sister’s books, Jane Austen’s Pride and Prej­u­dice.” -Ann Levin

Retelling​‘Pride and Prej­u­dice’ through a Jew­ish Lens by Lau­ren Appelbaum

“Mrs. Ben­net has always remind­ed me of a Jew­ish moth­er. A har­ried matri­arch, des­per­ate to see her five daugh­ters wed? My own moth­er isn’t far off from that, though she only has three daugh­ters, and her def­i­n­i­tion of suc­cess is broad­er than sim­ply mat­ri­mo­ny, the main aspi­ra­tion for most Regency women.” ‑Lau­ren Appelbaum

The Three Weiss­man­ns of West­port by Cath­leen Schine

“The book is replete with obser­va­tions of how well and bad­ly peo­ple behave in dif­fer­ent types of rela­tion­ships. It is a mod­ern day ver­sion of Jane Austen’s Sense and Sen­si­bil­i­ty, set in Man­hat­tan, Palm Springs and West­port, Con­necti­cut.” ‑Miri­am Brd­man Abrahams

The Jews of Don­well Abbey: An​“Emma” Vagary by Mir­ta Ines Trupp

“The Jews of Don­well Abbey, fol­lows Miss Har­ri­et Smith — a sec­ondary char­ac­ter in Austen’s Emma—as she comes to terms with her her­itage. The nar­ra­tive gives Miss Smith a voice. It allows her the oppor­tu­ni­ty to find accep­tance and pur­pose — where Austen sole­ly provids hints and doubts. In The Jews of Don­well Abbey, Har­ri­et comes home.” ‑From the Publisher

Jane Austen in Scars­dale: Of Love, Death and the SATs by Paula Marantz Cohen

“Paula Marantz Cohen close­ly exam­ines and wry­ly par­o­dies the col­lege admis­sions process and all the per­son­nel asso­ci­at­ed with that painstak­ing Amer­i­can right of pas­sage in an upscale Amer­i­can sub­urb.” ‑Paula Lubin

Lucinel­la by Lore Segal

“If the estate and grounds adjoin­ing those of Jane Austen’s fam­i­ly home had become a Yad­do com­mu­ni­ty — with select­ed artists giv­en two weeks to two months to cre­ate— Austen, who spo­rad­i­cal­ly strug­gled with decid­ing titles for her books, might have opt­ed to immor­tal­ize the new neigh­bors with a work titled Pride and Prej­u­dice, and addi­tion­al­ly, Sen­si­bil­i­ty—but Sense? Hard­ly. Not as Lore Segal saw Yad­do.” ‑Arlene B. Soifer

The Cook­book Col­lec­tor by Alle­gra Goodman

“Alle­gra Good­man writes with a light but styl­ish touch, and piques the read­er with her abil­i­ty not only to pen­e­trate the inner life of her char­ac­ters but also to place them in the var­i­ous worlds they inhab­it: the dot​.com busi­ness; rare book col­lect­ing and sell­ing; sav­ing the red­wood forests; Ortho­dox Judaism, and the all-impor­­tant fam­i­ly con­text.” ‑Claire Rudin

Jane Austen in Boca by Paula Marantz Cohen

“It is a truth uni­ver­sal­ly acknowl­edged that a nice Jew­ish wid­ow­er must be in want of a wife.” ‑From the Publisher