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The Smolinskys can't pay rent, and Reb Smolinsky is taken to court for hitting the landlady.
Book 1, Chapter 1Reb Smolinsky is let off by the judge and returns to Hester Street a hero.
Book 1, Chapter 2Bessie brings home Berel Berenstein as a suitor and her father rejects him.
Book 1, Chapter 3Mashah falls in love with pianist Jacob Novak but his father and her father disapprove.
Book 1, Chapter 4Fania receives a letter from her beau but is instead pushed into marrying wealthy Abe Schmukler.
Book 1, Chapter 5Mashah agrees to marry diamond-seller Moe Mirsky at her father's insistence.
Book 1, Chapter 5Bessie is sold off to Zalmon the fish peddler by her father for $500.
Book 1, Chapter 6Reb Smolinsky buys a supermarket in New Jersey but is swindled by the previous owner.
Book 1, Chapter 7Sara finally has enough of her father's tyranny and leaves her family for New York.
Book 1, Chapter 8Sara tries to stay with her sisters, but their husbands throw her out.
Book 1, Chapter 9Sara finds a tiny, dirty room to rent, gets a job at a laundry, and registers for night school.
Book 2, Chapter 10Max Goldstein visits Sara and courts her, but she eventually rejects him.
Book 2, Chapter 14Sara completes school and starts college in a small town, where she struggles to adjust.
Book 2, Chapter 16Sara graduates from college and wins $1,000 in an essay contest.
Book 2, Chapter 16| Chapter | Summary |
|---|---|
| Book 1, Chapter 1 | In the first chapter the protagonist and narrator, Sara Smolinsky, is 10 years old. The family is completely reliant on ... Read More |
| Book 1, Chapter 2 | Sara Smolinsky recounts her father's trial for assaulting the landlady. The judge lets him go because the lawyer makes a... Read More |
| Book 1, Chapter 3 | Though everyone had hoped one of the boarders might make a good match for Bessie Smolinsky, they all moon after Mashah S... Read More |
| Book 1, Chapter 4 | Mashah Smolinsky becomes interested in a young pianist named Jacob Novak, and she starts paying more attention to what i... Read More |
| Book 1, Chapter 5 | Fania Smolinsky receives a letter from a poet and writer named Morris Lipkin. Her family opens it and gives her a hard t... Read More |
| Book 1, Chapter 6 | Sara Smolinsky begins working in a paper box factory, where she is paid by the piece. She makes better money than many o... Read More |
| Book 1, Chapter 7 | Reb Smolinsky decides to start a business with the $500 he got from Zalmon the fish peddler in exchange for Bessie Smoli... Read More |
| Book 1, Chapter 8 | Sara Smolinsky's mother bargains and borrows to stock the empty store and try to make their situation work, but no custo... Read More |
| Book 1, Chapter 9 | Not knowing where else to go upon her return to New York, Sara Smolinsky heads straight for Zalmon and Bessie's fish sho... Read More |
| Book 2, Chapter 10 | Sara Smolinsky has a moment of inspiration remembering a story about a factory girl who goes to college and becomes a te... Read More |
| Book 2, Chapter 11 | Sara Smolinsky sits down to make herself a budget for her weekly earnings. She realizes that she has barely enough left ... Read More |
| Book 2, Chapter 12 | Sara Smolinsky realizes that eating her small meals alone is worse than sharing with her family. As she stirs a pot of o... Read More |
| Book 2, Chapter 13 | Feeling increasingly isolated, Sara Smolinsky wants to be accepted into the circle of laundresses at her work who all se... Read More |
| Book 2, Chapter 14 | Sara Smolinsky receives a failing grade in geometry and a letter from Fania in the same day. Fania writes that the man s... Read More |
| Book 2, Chapter 15 | Sara suddenly misses her father, thinking that he would understand her rejection of Max Goldstein. As she remembers his ... Read More |
| Book 2, Chapter 16 | Sara Smolinsky packs up her things and heads for college. She arrives in a small town to find a completely different env... Read More |
| Book 3, Chapter 17 | With a college degree and $1,000 in her pocket, Sara Smolinsky returns to New York. She is able to take a Pullman train ... Read More |
| Book 3, Chapter 18 | Sara Smolinsky prepares to go home for the first time in six years. Her parents have moved back to Hester Street, and sh... Read More |
| Book 3, Chapter 19 | Feeling sad that she didn't give mother more time and understanding while she was alive, Sara Smolinsky makes an effort ... Read More |
| Book 3, Chapter 20 | Sara Smolinsky begins teaching and the glamor begins to wear off. She realizes that like most things in life, being a sc... Read More |
| Book 3, Chapter 21 | Despite the joy Sara Smolinsky feels in her new life, she also experiences guilt at being unable to share her happiness ... Read More |
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