Welcome!

Thank you for visiting my website. Here you can learn more about my two novels The Ladies Auxiliary and The Outside World. You can also contact me through this site to request speaking engagements, book club appearances or ask other questions.

I am currently finishing another novel, called Inside Voices, so check back soon for more information about this book. In the meantime, you can read more about the book here.

You can also listen to a short story of mine which was broadcast on National Public Radio. Or read some recent essays I've written for Tablet Magazine's "Life and Religion" section ("Sophisticated Palate" and "Hard to Match"); and on Babble.com.

"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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