The Weight of Ink -- Rachel Kadish, Paperback They Died With Their Boots On (1941) which includes Sufjan Stevens and

which includes Sufjan Stevens and Sam Beam (Iron & Wine)

But it's also a literary tale narrated by a strong woman with a richly drawn personal life - powerful and genre-defying

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The Weight of Ink -- Rachel Kadish, Paperback They Died With Their Boots On (1941) which includes Sufjan Stevens andWINNER OF A NATIONAL JEWISH BOOK AWARD A USA TODAY BESTSELLER "A gifted writer, astonishingly adept at nuance, narration, and the politics of passion." Toni Morrison 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,