Informed by the reading practices of medieval monks and rabbinic scholars from her training at the Harvard Divinity School and filtered through the pages of Jane Eyre as well as Little Women, Harry Potter, and The Great Gatsby, Zoltan explores what it means to have a birthright that you want to both honor and leave behind.

In this fresh and relatable work, atheist chaplain Vanessa Zoltan blends memoir and personal growth as she grapples with the notions of family legacy and identity through the lens of her favorite novel, Jane Eyre. Our favorite books keep us company, give us hope, and help us find meaning in a chaotic world. I also think the series, as a whole, has been wonderful.Ī deeply felt celebration of a classic novel–and a reflection on the ways our favorite books can shape and heal us.

Little does she realize that every stunt she pulls to make him call off the wedding only makes him like her even more.Īmanda: This book revitalized my love for a genre that I had honestly felt I would never be excited to read again. She decides to show Rothschild that she’s no typical London wallflower. He wants August, and he always gets what he wants.īut August won’t go peacefully to her fate. But after meeting her fiery sister, he realizes Violet isn’t the heiress he wants. He’s recently inherited the title only to find his coffers empty, and with countless lives depending on him, he can’t walk away from the fortune a Crenshaw heiress would bring him. August refuses to leave her sister to the mercy of a loveless marriage.Įvan Sterling, the Duke of Rothschild, has no intention of walking away from the marriage. When it’s clear that August’s outrageously progressive ways render her unsuitible for a respectable match, her parents offer up her younger sister to the highest entitled bidder instead.

But unlike her peers, it isn’t some stuffy British Lord she wants wrapped around her finger-it’s Crenshaw Iron Works, the family business. Even a fortune forged in railroads and steel can’t buy entrance into the upper echelons of Victorian high society-for that you need a marriage of convenience.Īmerican heiress August Crenshaw has aspirations.

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