β Eleanor Thom
π Fiction
π Gerald Duckworth & Co Ltd
π English
β 159 KB
π 1 views
β¦ LIBER β¦
The tin horse: a novel
β Scribed by Janice Steinberg
- Publisher
- Random House Publishing Group
- Year
- 2013
- Tongue
- en-US
- Weight
- 259 KB
- Edition
- 1st ed
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN
- 0679643745
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
β¦ Synopsis
In the stunning tradition of Lisa See, Maeve Binchy, and Alice Hoffman, The Tin Horse is a rich multigenerational story about the intense, often fraught bond sisters share and the dreams and sorrows that lay at the heart of the immigrant experience.
It has been more than sixty years since Elaine Greenstein's twin sister, Barbara, ran away, cutting off contact with her family forever. Elaine has made peace with that loss. But while sifting through old papers as she prepares to move to Rancho MaΓ±ana--or the "Ranch of No Tomorrow" as she refers to the retirement community--she is stunned to find a possible hint to Barbara's whereabouts all these years later. And it pushes her to confront the fierce love and bitter rivalry of their youth during the 1920s and '30s, in the Jewish neighborhood of Boyle Heights, Los Angeles.
Though raised together in Boyle Heights, where kosher delis and storefront signs in Yiddish lined the streets, Elaine and Barbara...
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