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2017., Adult, Linda Leith Publishing Call No: QWF Fic Fre Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: "When Hannah accompanies her husband and small children to Jerusalem for the year, she becomes fascinated with a group of expat women at her son's daycare, as well as a young Palestinian woman named Jenna. As she grows close to Jenna she starts to question her own marriage and her relationship to Israel. A novel of domestic and political ambivalence, Arabic for Beginners is about marriage, motherhood, friendship, nation, and the complicated ways we think of home."--From publisher.
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2019., Adult, Linda Leith Publishing Call No: QWF Fic Fre Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: "While sorting through her deceased grandmother's belongings, Alice Stein discovers an unexpected treasure which hints at a family secret. Soon she finds that everyone in the broken New York of the late 1990s is keeping secrets: the undergraduates at NYU where she teaches writing, the mercurial single mother who lives downstairs, and the elusive artist who is the last living link to her grandmother. Her eleven-year-old neighbour becomes her unlikely companion in a quest for resolution. 'It is a joy to be hidden,' D.W. Winnicott writes, and this novel is about the ways we hide from ourselves and from each other, and the long roads we travel in order to find the answers that bring us home."--Back cover.
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2022., Linda Leith Publishing Call No: QWF Fic Fre Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Meet Léa Roback, polyglot, labour activist, farbente feminist. Born to a large Jewish family and raised in a French Catholic town in Quebec, Léa moves fluidly between languages and cultures. Her search for meaning and her instinct for justice place her at the centre of the great changes of the twentieth century. From street fights in Berlin to protests in Montreal, she defies the expectations and limitations of women’s lives, wins historic victories for the union movement...and contends with the tensions in her own convictions. Based on a true story, this novel brings to life a heroine emboldened by struggle, and by the still-resonant terrors of her historical moment.
