British · b. 1973
Eve Harris explored the tensions between individual desire and religious community in her debut novel "The Marrying of Chani Kaufman." The British author drew on her experience as a ba'alat teshuva—one who returns to Orthodox Judaism—to portray the arranged marriage negotiations of a North London Hasidic community. The novel won the 2013 Waverton Good Read Award, praised for its sympathetic yet clear-eyed portrait of a world rarely depicted in contemporary fiction.