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About Beyond The Ghetto Gates: A Novel
Product Description When French troops occupy the Italian port city of Ancona, freeing the city’s Jews from their repressive ghetto, it unleashes a whirlwind of progressivism and brutal backlash as two very different cultures collide. Mirelle, a young Jewish maiden, must choose between her duty—an arranged marriage to a wealthy Jewish merchant—and her love for a dashing French Catholic soldier. Meanwhile, Francesca, a devout Catholic, must decide if she will honor her marriage vows to an abusive and murderous husband when he enmeshes their family in the theft of a miracle portrait of the Madonna.Set during the turbulent days of Napoleon Bonaparte’s Italian campaign (1796–97), Beyond the Ghetto Gates is both a cautionary tale for our present moment, with its rising tide of anti-Semitism, and a story of hope—a reminder of a time in history when men and women of conflicting faiths were able to reconcile their prejudices in the face of a rapidly changing world. Review 2020 CIBA Goethe Book Awards Finalist 2020 IPPY Awards Silver Winner in Historical Fiction "The author paints a vivid tableau of the historical period with impressive rigor and authenticity. In addition, Cameron provocatively wonders if, while prejudice is eternal, past ages were better equipped to manage it . . . A gripping peek into a bygone Italy and an astute look at the era's prejudice." -- Kirkus Reviews " Beyond the Ghetto Gates is set in turbulent times, but its story is a delicate one about coming of age when all that's familiar is changing." -- Foreword Clarion Reviews, 4/5 " Beyond the Ghetto Gates . . . is a beautiful and heartbreaking story of love and loss, freedom and pain." --Readers' Favorite, 5-star review "Cameron's vivid page-turner delivers a shattering portrait of love, lust, war, betrayal and faith inside the gates of a famed Jewish ghetto in late 18th century Italy. Best of all, Beyond the Ghetto Gates gives us Mirelle, a brave and brilliant young heroine who learns that faith in one's self is the greatest faith of all." --Laurie Lico Albanese, author of Stolen Beauty "Against the backdrop of Napoleon's invasion of Italy, Cameron weaves an immersive tale of a young Jewish woman torn between her filial duty and passion for a young Catholic soldier. Her portrait of Jews and Catholics grappling with social upheaval in an 18th-century harbor town shines a light on the challenges of nationalism, religion, and bigotry that still plague society today." --Talia Carner, author of The Third Daughter, Jerusalem Maiden, and others "In this sweeping saga, Cameron draws a compelling portrait of life in late 18th-century Italy, when the citizens of war-torn Ancona face the challenges of their world transformed by Napoleon's liberating army. From the Jews who are suddenly freed from the restrictive confines of the city's ghetto, to the Catholics whose deep devotion is set on fire by a miraculous weeping portrait of the Madonna, Beyond the Ghetto Gates captures the double-edged sword of passion and faith." --Judith Lindbergh, author of The Thrall's Tale "I devoured this engrossing, passionate story of a young Jewish woman in 1796 who wants only to work with her beloved father in his workshop. But even after Napoleon invades Italy, liberates her city, and breaks down the ghetto gates, customs still enclose Mirelle both as a Jew and a woman. And outside the gates are waiting the riots of anti-Semitism, tragic loss, and a difficult love. These pages are splashed with brilliant colors between the dark corners of this lost world where ghetto buildings are built so close and high that people cannot see the stars. You will live and breathe this young woman's struggles to have what she wants and still honor her family until the unexpected last paragraphs--and then for a long time after." --Stephanie Cowell, author of Claude and Camile, Nicholas Cooke, The Players: A Novel of the Young Shakespeare and others "What forces are unleashed when the world
