Nine Folds Make a Paper Swan

Nine Folds Make a Paper Swan
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Publisher : Tin House Books
Total Pages : 208
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ISBN-10 : 9781941040508
ISBN-13 : 1941040500
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Book Synopsis Nine Folds Make a Paper Swan by : Ruth Gilligan

Download or read book Nine Folds Make a Paper Swan written by Ruth Gilligan and published by Tin House Books. This book was released on 2017-01-24 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.


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