Bread Givers is a coming of age story set in the 1920s.
Determined not to let her father ruin her lif.
Sara watches as her father manipulates and orders her sisters into bad marriages and sees his many business mistakes.
Her father is an Orthodox rabbi who feels that it is up to his four daughters and his wife to support him as he studies the Torah.
As the novel begins Sara Smolinsky is a 10-year-old girl whose family has immigrated to New York City from Poland.
Bread Givers is a coming of age story set in the 1920s