A USA Today Bestseller Winner
of a National Jewish Book Award Winner
of the Association
of Jewish Libraries Jewish Fiction Award An Amazon Best Book
of the Year One
of Ms. Magazine's «Bookmark» Titles One
of The Jewish Exponent's «2017's Top Reads» 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, an ailing historian with a love
of Jewish history.