Sima's Undergarments for Women

There’s a social situation which has always interested me, both in life and in literature. It’s when a person, usually older and more competent in one or more ways, takes a younger and more vulnerable person under his wing, motivated at least as much by his own desire for a protégée as by genuine in......more

Reading Ilana Stanger-Ross's debut novel Sima's Undergarments for Women is an exercise in anxiety, primarily because the reader is so thoroughly immersed in main character Sima Goldner's uncertain, self-conscious thoughts. Sima is one of the most skillfully developed characters to enter the world of......more

Interesting, different, and very real. I began this because of the story idea: Sima has been selling sensuous lingerie since decades, yet has no sensuousness left in her life. In comes attractive Timna, soon working as a seamstress for her. The rest is about their lives, introspections, challenges.......more

Anders als der Titel vermuten lässt ist "Die geheime Welt der Frauen" weder ein Erotikroman, noch ein Roman aus dem von mir wenig geschätzten Genre der leichten Frauenunterhaltung. Es geht hier um Sima, eine verheiratete, aber kinderlose Frau Mitte 60, die in Brooklyn im Umfeld der orthodoxen jüdisc......more

This book caught my attention when I spotted it at my local library. It had a different book cover than the one shown here, but the title itself was interesting and the blurb on the back piqued my interest. Unfortunately, I don't think the book lives up to its cover. I didn't mind reading the book -......more