Let me begin afresh.

Perhaps, this time, to tell the truth.
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About Rachel

Rachel Kadish is a fiction writer and essayist. Her most recent novel, The Weight of Ink, was a U.S.A. Today bestseller and recipient of a National Jewish Book Award. Her work has appeared in The New York Times and Paris Review and has been read on National Public Radio. She has been a fellow of the National Endowment for the Arts.

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About The Weight of Ink

Set in seventeenth and twenty-first century London, The Weight of Ink is the interwoven tale of two women of remarkable intellect--Ester Velasquez, an emigrant from Amsterdam who scribes for a blind rabbi just before the plague overtakes London; and Helen Watt, an ailing historian with a fraught love of Jewish history.

Electrifying and ambitious, The Weight of Ink illuminates the urgent choices we make to reconcile the life of the heart and mind.

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praise for Rachel's work

“A gifted writer, astonishingly adept at nuance, narration, and the politics of passion."

—TONI MORRISON

“Rachel Kadish is a brilliant story-teller, with a mystery writer's instinct for pacing and a willingness to take on the largest human questions. The Weight of Ink is astonishing.”

—Carol Gilligan, author of In a Different Voice

“A tale of war and peace that moves us from Jerusalem to New York and back again . . . filled with vigorous and distinct voices and a generous, alert narrative intelligence." 

—The San Francisco Chronicle on From a Sealed Room

“On my last trip I took The Weight of Ink, by Rachel Kadish, and I was actually sorry when the plane landed; I would happily have kept flying till the book ended.”

—Ruth Reichl, author of Tender at the Bone, in The New York Times

“[I Was Here] is an announcement that Rachel Kadish, long one of our most promising writers, is now a literary force to be reckoned with."

—Rebecca Newberger Goldstein, bestselling author of The Mind Body Problem

“I am taken by the poignancy of its voice—by its evocative imagery, too. I hope it reaches many homes and many hearts." 

—Elie Wiesel, author of Night, on From a Sealed Room

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