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Happiness and Contentment

Two smiling people standing in a greenhouse with flowers.

Readers will reflect on the importance of finding one’s current life as happy, sufficient, and satisfying, and how the lack of these qualities negatively affects us.

 

 

 

 

 

Bread Givers

This masterwork of American immigrant literature is set in the 1920s on the Lower East Side of Manhattan and tells the story of Sara Smolinsky, the youngest daughter of an Orthodox rabbi, who rebels against her father's rigid conception of Jewish womanhood. Sarah's struggle towards independence and self-fulfillment resonates with a passion all can share.

Our Town

Through simple dialogue and nostalgic touches, the play magically conveys a profound love story between George Gibbs and Emily Webb set against a rich study of citizens of a small town.