Becoming Becca Solomon

Can a daughter ever truly be free of her mother’s shadow?

1947, Lower Manhattan. Becca Rivkin is tired of being a “nice Jewish girl.” At fifteen, she becomes the sole provider of her ultra-Orthodox Jewish family, yet nothing is good enough for her abusive mother, Frieda. Trapped in an endless cycle of pain and neglect, Becca feels hopeless about her future. Abandoned by her father and ignored by her siblings, she finds solace in her older brother. Yet everything changes the day he is killed in a tragic shooting.

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