Nine folds make a paper swan.
Nine folds make a paper swan.
Alternate Title
:
9 folds make a paper swan
By
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Gilligan, Ruth.
Publication Date
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2016
Subject Term
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Families -- Fiction.
Immigrants -- Fiction.
Women journalists -- Fiction.
Jews -- Fiction.
Geographic Term
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London (England) -- Fiction.
Ireland -- Fiction.
Summary
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Three intertwining voices span the twentieth century to tell the unknown story of the Jews in Ireland. A heartbreaking portrait of what it means to belong, and how storytelling can redeem us all. At the start of the twentieth century, a young girl and her family emigrate from Lithuania in search of a better life in America, only to land on the Emerald Isle instead. In 1958, a mute Jewish boy locked away in a mental institution outside of Dublin forms an unlikely friendship with a man consumed by the story of the love he lost nearly two decades earlier. And in present-day London, an Irish journalist is forced to confront her conflicting notions of identity and family when her Jewish boyfriend asks her to make a true leap of faith. These three arcs, which span generations and intertwine in revelatory ways, come together to tell the haunting story of Ireland’s all-but-forgotten Jewish community. Ruth Gilligan’s beautiful and heartbreaking Nine Folds Make a Paper Swan explores the question of just how far we will go to understand who we really are, and to feel at home in the world.
Language
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English
ISBN
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9781941040492
General Note
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Corner Brook copy donated in memory of Max A. Neiman family.
Library | Collection | Collection | Call Number | Copy | Status |
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Corner Brook (WCB) | Adult Fic Softcover | Adult Fiction Softcover | FIC GIL | Gregory M. A. Neiman collection | Checked In |