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A brilliant and ambitious young woman strives to find her place amid the promise and tumult of 1920s Wall Street in a captivating historical novel by the author of The Lobotomist's Wife.
Bea Abramovitz has a gift for math and numbers. With her father, she studies the burgeoning Wall Street…
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The Trade Off tells the story of a young Jewish woman who arrives in Manhattan from Europe a few years before the Depression. She has nothing but her family and her love of numbers. As she learns about American society, she develops dreams of working on the stock market. Unfortunately, she lacks the proper pedigree. Being from humble means is strike one. A Jew, strike two. And a woman! Worst of all. But it turns out Bea Abramowitz is smarter than anyone gives her credit for. To say that I loved this book is an extreme understatement. It's a page…
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