{"product_id":"the-weight-of-ink","title":"The Weight of Ink","description":"\u003cp\u003eWINNER OF A NATIONAL JEWISH BOOK AWARD A USA TODAY BESTSELLER  An intellectual and emotional jigsaw puzzle of a novel for readers of A. S. Byatts Possession and Geraldine Brookss People of the Book  Set in London of the 1660s and of the early twenty-first century  The Weight of Ink 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.  As the novel opens  Helen has been summoned by a former student to view a cache of seventeenth-century Jewish documents newly discovered in his home during a renovation. Enlisting the help of Aaron Levy  an American graduate student as impatient as he is charming  and in a race with another fast-moving team of historians  Helen embarks on one last project: to determine the identity of the documents scribe  the elusive Aleph.  Electrifying and ambitious  sweeping in scope and intimate in tone  The Weight of Ink is a sophisticated work of historical fiction about women separated by centuries  and the choices and sacrifices they must make in order to reconcile the life of the heart and mind.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44946017812533,"sku":"ByrdShop_0544866460","price":27.61,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780544866461.jpg?v=1769919448","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/the-weight-of-ink","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}