Michael J. Rosen

Wild Grapes

Fiction

“Wild Grapes, set among Jewish immigrants-turned-farmers in early twentieth-century Ohio, is a story of resilience, faith, and grudging reinvention. Miriam Flock’s courageous, unsparing matriarch, Bluma Rappaport, is driven to help her daughters escape the circumscribed life that has been her lot; they should root and prosper in the unfamiliar soil of a new country. In our twenty-first-century culture, when populations are still besieged with displacement and bound together with fragile hope, Wild Grapes reminds us how families can cultivate belonging even in the most unyielding ground.”