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 w
The Book Borrower
โ Scribed by Mattison, Alice
- Book ID
- 108580396
- Publisher
- HarperCollins
- Year
- 2012
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 184 KB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN-13
- 9780061153020
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โฆ 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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