Nine Folds Make a Paper Swan

✍ Scribed by Ruth Gilligan

• Book ID: 100112104
• Publisher: Tin House Books;Atlantic Books
• Year: 2017;2016
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 168 KB
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN: 1941040500

✦ Synopsis

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 Irelands all-but-forgotten Jewish community. Ruth Gilligans 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.

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