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The book borrower: a novel

✍ Scribed by Alice Mattison

Book ID
100182476
Publisher
HarperCollins;Library of Congress, NLS/BPH
Year
2012;2001
Tongue
English
Weight
160 KB
Category
Fiction
ISBN
0062232010

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✦ Synopsis

On the day they first meet in a city playground, Deborah Laidlaw lends Toby Ruben a book called Trolley Girl , the memoir of a forgotten trolley strike in the 1920s, written by the sister of a fiery Jewish revolutionary who played an important, ultimately tragic role in the events. Young mothers with babies, Toby and Deborah become instant friends. It is a relationship that will endure for decades--through the vagaries of marriage, career, and child-rearing, through heated discussions of politics, ethics, and life--until an insurmountable argument takes the two women down divergent paths. But in the aftermath of crisis and sorrow, it is a borrowed book, long set aside and forgotten, that will unite Toby and Deborah once again.

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