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The Outside World is now available in paperback. In this site, you can learn more about the book, read reviews and an excerpt, or purchase a copy from your favorite bookseller. You can also get information about Tova's first novel, The Ladies Auxiliary.

A number of reviews of The Outside World are available, as well. Read them in the Reviews section.

"A brilliant evocation of Orthodox life in all its variety, complexity and internal flux."

"Joyous ... Mirvis [is] a wide-eyed and big-hearted writer. Mirvis has a pastry chef's control of her material, a sureness about not overhandling the dough. She leavens utterly serious explorations of faith with chuckle-out-loud humor ... You don't have to be Jewish to love her."

Tova's first novel, The Ladies Auxiliary, was published in 1999 to great acclaim and was a national bestseller. In it, Tova tells the story of the close-knit, carefully structured world of the Orthodox community in her hometown of Memphis, Tennessee—a world that unravels when Batsheva, newly widowed and a convert to Judaism, and her five-year-old daughter, Ayala, move in.

In this site, you can read more about the novel, read reviews and an excerpt, or purchase a copy online. Follow any of the links at the left for more information.

"Full of verve and chitzpah ... where Southern flavors meet Jewish sensibilities."

"Compassionate and perceptive...The triumph of this book is its portrayal of these women, whose community is a treasure of tradition and moral values...Mirvis has written a book that poses poignant questions even as it acknowledges that there may be no answers to them."

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