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“JESSICA LIFTED UP HER wide-sleeved pinafore, her cioppa, with both hands and stepped sideways around the dead cat that was lying on the street in front of her.”
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Sixteen-year-old Jessica, who longs to be free of the restrictions of her father and life in the Jewish ghetto of sixteen-century Venice, falls in love with a Christian aristocrat and must make choices which will affect her whole family. Inspired by Shakespeare's play The merchant of Venice.