Other Things Being Equal

A hummingbird settles on a palm outside Ruth Levice’s window, and a rare, dustless afternoon in San Francisco seems to have lulled the world. Then her cousin Jennie arrives with news that could disturb the calm: Ruth’s mother may be seriously ill.

In late-nineteenth-century San Francisco, Ruth’s close-knit Jewish family moves among a society divided by faith, custom, and ideas of respectability. Raised by her reserved father, Ruth has only recently become her mother’s companion in a lively round of visits and receptions. She would gladly leave the gaiety behind, but her mother appears intent on keeping up appearances—and her father, protective and devoted, may not see how much is wrong. With a family evening already planned, Ruth must decide how to bring him the troubling news without wounding the bond between her parents. What will she find when she looks beyond her mother’s polished composure?

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