The Tenth Song, Naomi Ragen
The Tenth Song, Naomi Ragen
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The Tenth Song
A Novel

Author: Naomi Ragen

Narrator: Karen White

Unabridged: 12 hr 7 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 11/02/2010

Categories: Fiction, Family Life, Women


Synopsis

When life is at its best, the unimaginable can shatter everything you think you know...

Abigail Samuels has no reason to feel anything but joy on the morning her life falls apart. The epitome of the successful Jewish American woman, she is married to a well-known and respected accountant and is in the middle of planning her daughter Kayla's wedding. Kayla, too, wakes up that morning with the world in the palm of her hand. Having lived the charmed life of a well-loved child from a happy family, she is bright, pretty, a Harvard law student who has never really questioned the path she found herself on.

With a shocking suddenness, all that is smashed to pieces in ways they could never have dreamed. When a heartbroken Kayla runs away to a desert commune run by a charismatic mystic, Abigail rushes to save her, only to find that there is nothing more whole than a broken heart.

About Naomi Ragen

An American born in New York, Naomi Ragen has lived and worked in Jerusalem for the past four decades and is the author of several international bestsellers, an award-winning play, and an influential and widely read Web site. An iconoclast, an Orthodox woman, and a fiercely outspoken advocate for gender equality, her novels hold a unique place in the Jewish library. Her first book, Jephte's Daughter, was listed among the one hundred most important Jewish books of all time. Her other titles include The Covenant, The Ghost of Hannah Mendes, The Sacrifice of Tamar, and The Saturday Wife.


Reviews

Goodreads review by NancyL

This could have been a great book on how Homeland Security has gone off the deep end and taken the rights of the innocent. The first few chapters were thought-provoking. A wealthy Jewish family becomes involved in a plot financing terrorist activity. Then the book becomes kinda trite when the younge......more

Goodreads review by Michael

Abigail Samuels has no reason to complain, she is married to a renowned account Adam and have an intelligent daughter Kayla. Harvey Law student and well loved by friends and family,are just one of the many incentives to Kayla`s resume. In the midst of planning a wedding for her daughter,Abigail`s li......more

Goodreads review by Beth

I was really disappointed with this book - it read like a Harlequin romance. I have read many of Naomi Ragen's older books and really liked them but I didn't like this one much at all. The language was too flowery, the story not believable, the characters making life changing decisions in the blink......more

Goodreads review by Stacy

I normally love books by Naomi Ragen, but this one is not one of my favorites. I found the characters to be one-dimensional, the storyline to be flimsy & very contrived & the premise to be ridiculous. I kept waiting for something big to happen, and even though the book had big moments, none of them......more