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~ New Release - 2025
Return to the world of John Irving's bestselling classic novel The Cider House Rules, with Queen Esther which revisits the orphanage in St. Cloud's, Maine, where Dr. Larch takes in Esther, a three-year-old Jewish girl whose life has been shaped by antisemitism . . .
Richly textured with unforgettable characters, vivid settings, and familial love, Queen Esther examines relationships, the nature of identity and the gnawing horror of antisemitism.
“Queen Esther is quintessential Irving: layered, funny, heartbreaking, and full of the strange humanity he has always captured so well.” -- Canadian Jewish News