New York, NY: Harcourt Brace & Company, 1999. A nice reading copy. Pages are clean but yellowing at the edges. Binding is tight. Book and jacket show some shelfwear. . First Edition, 1st printing. Hard Cover. Good +/Good.

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One star-studded night, five-year-old Lili witnesses her mother, Roxanna the Angel, sprout wings and vanish into the sky, undisturbed by the rules of gravity. Roxanna leaves no farewell, no word of explanation, no trace of her existence. Lili's subsequent search for her mother-spurred by the tireless efforts of her aunt Miriam the Moon-is at the heart of this mesmerizing epic tale that follows Roxanna, born as a bad-luck child in the harsh Jewish ghetto of Tehran, through the opulent world of Iran's aristocracy, to the whorehouses of Turkey and beyond, to present-day Los Angeles. At stake are Roxanna's hopes for happiness, for escaping the bonds of Old World tradition and finding forgiveness for that most egregious of sins-desire. Weaving together strands of Persian and Jewish culture, Gina Nahai brings to life a courageous circle of women rooted in their homeland but reshaping their lives in America, the land of chances and choices.

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Bookseller: after-words bookstore (US)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 056349
Title: Moonlight on the Avenue of Faith
Author: Nahai, Gina B
Format/Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Used - Good +
Jacket Condition: Good
Edition: First Edition, 1st printing
ISBN 10: 0151003882
ISBN 13: 9780151003884
Publisher: Harcourt Brace & Company
Place of Publication: New York, NY
Date Published: 1999
Keywords: FICTION JUDAISM
Bookseller catalogs: Judaism; Fiction Spirituality;

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