Women of the Metro Bal­let cap­tures the spice and spir­it of New Orleans as it zooms in on an Uptown neigh­bor­hood, and specif­i­cal­ly on the Com­mon Grounds cof­fee shop. At its heart are four young women who are strug­gling to raise their chil­dren, form mean­ing­ful rela­tion­ships, and run their often-hec­tic house­holds. Cen­tral to the sto­ry is a moth­er’s strug­gle to instill a Jew­ish iden­ti­ty in her young chil­dren, despite inter­mar­riage and assim­i­la­tion. Encir­cling them all are sev­er­al imped­ing fac­tors, includ­ing dif­fi­cult sib­ling rela­tion­ships, dis­en­gaged spous­es, domes­tic abuse, and final­ly, life-threat­en­ing ill­ness. Women of the Metro Bal­let is a non­tra­di­tion­al nar­ra­tive in that it shows the inner life of the five women try­ing to find them­selves, and how find­ing Com­mon Grounds may be what ulti­mate­ly saves them. Women of the Metro Bal­let is geared toward an adult female audi­ence, rang­ing from age 35 – 80. Writ­ten in the first per­son from five dif­fer­ent per­spec­tives, the book dis­tin­guish­es itself by explor­ing the com­plex rela­tion­ships women have with their chil­dren, their hus­bands, and themselves.