A review by happy_hiker
Sima’s Undergarments for Women by Ilana Stanger-Ross

2.0

I picked this book because it was on the “Don’t Miss List” – new at the local library. Sima (pronounced Simma) runs a lingerie shop in her Orthodox Jewish Brooklyn neighborhood. She hires Timna, a beautiful young Israeli to help out in the store as a seamstress. Sima is obsessed with Timna – annoyingly so, stalker-like even – trying to treat her as the child she never had and the savior to her lonely life. The book goes back and forth between Sima trying to figure out what is going on with Timna, and Sima’s own infertility and her failed relationship with her long-suffering husband, Lev. Would I recommend this book? Probably not. There was really nothing wrong with it, but there was nothing stunning about it either. I also didn’t really care for the narration.