Talia Carner’s JERUSALEM MAIDEN a rich historical tale of one woman’s struggle for self-expression, which opens in 1911 with the city under Ottoman rule and follows the life of twelve-year-old Esther Kaminsky to adulthood as her art sets her against her orthodox society’s expectations of her as a wife and mother to Katherine Nintzel at Harper Collins in a nice deal by agent Marly Rusoff of Marly Rusoff & Associates. (NA)
