After her divorce, book lover Ilana Kurshan sought solace in the 1500-year-old Talmud. This memoir chronicles her seven-and-a-half-year journey through Judaism's central text, by the end of which she had remarried and given birth to three children. In the process we learn rabbinic wisdom on topics ranging from wealth inequality to coping with stress. Here is a celebration not only of the Talmud but of all literature, one that will appeal to Jewish and non-Jewish readers alike