ESTHER CHEHEBAR is a contributing writer at Tablet magazine, where she covers Sephardic Jewish tradition and community, and a member of Sephardic Bikur Holim, a nonprofit supporting the growing Syrian Jewish community in Brooklyn, New York. She holds an MFA from The New School and her work has been featured in Glamour and Man Repeller. Her first book, I Share My Name, is an illustrated children’s book explaining the Sephardic tradition of naming children for their grandparents. She lives in New York with her husband, their kids, their Ori-Pei named Jude, and a couple of fish. Sisters of Fortune: A Novel (Random House) is her debut novel.