Publisher's Synopsis
KEY SELLING POINTS:
The majority of historical fiction buyers are women interested in stories about family and fulfillment.
The book subject will appeal to the Jewish niche market.
Jewish readers are represented by education not population, with special interest in stories of identity and heritage. (2008 BEA Jewish Book Panel at BookExpo America, quoting Daisy Maryles, executive editor of Publishers Weekly.)
AUDIENCE:
All readers, especially women, ages 25-60 and those of Jewish heritage, which is a market of millions and a high percentage share the novel's history.
About 5 million people now in the US are Jewish by religion, descent or affinity (*2013 Pew Research Survey).
Over 2 million of the 9 million immigrants in the major wave (1881 to1914) were Eastern European Jews from the Pale of Settlement, a group with the lowest (7%) return rate of any immigrant sector. (**Jewish Women's Archive)
40% were women intent on raising families (58% were urban and skilled in garment and industrial trades) and many descendants share the novel's depiction of this history. (**Jewish Women's Archive).
Book club members and readers
Readers of Jewish literature
