At twenty-three, Michelle Ephraim was failing at everything.
Green World reckons with global, historical, and personal tragedy and shows how literature--comic and tragic--can help us brave every kind of anguish..
As she studies Shakespeare, Ephraim\'s world uncannily begins to mirror the story of the Jewish daughter in The Merchant of Venice , and she finds herself in a Green World, an idyllic place where Shakespeare\'s heroines escape their family trauma.
Green World is the hilarious and heartbreaking story of Ephraim\'s quest to become a Shakespeare scholar and to find community and home.
Shakespeare, she decided, was the lifeline she needed.
Loopy from vodka and never having read a single line of Shakespeare, she was transfixed.
Then, one night, she crashed a Shakespeare recitation party.
The only child of reclusive Holocaust-survivor parents who were dismayed by her literary studies, she found herself dumped by her boyfriend and bombing out of graduate school.
At twenty-three, Michelle Ephraim was failing at everything
