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A contemporary, feminist retelling of The Scarlet Letter
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The Hester of this novel, born into a conservative Jewish ("puritan") community in 1929 Boston, is spirited and humanistic, like her predecessor Hester Prynne. The novel recreates the pivotal events and characters of Hawthorne's classic work, then imagines Pearl's and Hester's lives through the lens of gender in contemporary New England.
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