Weight of Ink

<strong>WINNER OF A NATIONAL JEWISH BOOK AWARD <br> A <em>USA TODAY</em> BESTSELLER <p/> A gifted writer astonishingly adept at nuance narration and the politics of passion.--Toni Morrison</strong> <p/> Set in London of the 1660s and of the early twenty-first century <em>The Weight of Ink</em> is the interwoven tale of two women of remarkable intellect: Ester Velasquez an emigrant from Amsterdam who is permitted to scribe for a blind rabbi just before the plague hits the city; and Helen Watt an ailing historian with a love of Jewish history. <p/> When Helen is summoned by a former student to view a cache of newly discovered seventeenth-century Jewish documents she enlists the help of Aaron Levy an American graduate student as impatient as he is charming and embarks on one last project: to determine the identity of the documents' scribe the elusive Aleph. <p/> Electrifying and ambitious <em>The Weight of Ink</em> is about women separated by centuries--and the choices and sacrifices they must make in order to reconcile the life of the heart and mind.