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Displaced persons / Joan Leegant.
Van Pelt Library PS3612.E3495 D57 2024
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LIBRA PS3612.E3495 D57 2024
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Leegant, Joan, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Jewish fiction.
- United States--Social life and customs--20th century--Fiction.
- United States.
- Israel--Social life and customs--20th century--Fiction.
- Israel.
- Manners and customs.
- Genre:
- short stories.
- Short stories
- Fiction
- Short stories.
- Physical Description:
- 309 pages ; 21 cm
- Other Title:
- Displaced persons : stories
- Place of Publication:
- Wisconsin: New American Press, [2024]
- Summary:
- "Set half in Israel and half in the States, the stories in this prize-winning collection explore the experience of exile, belonging, and what it means to call a place home. A visiting professor from Boston forms an unlikely bond with an Israeli born in Iraq. Two teenage tourists are startled out of their naiveté in a restaurant in Jerusalem's Old City. A gifted yeshiva student spiraling into mental illness takes refuge in the poetry of Walt Whitman. AN aged widower returns after sixty years to the Bronx neighborhood of his youth to make ameds with a first love he abandoned to go to prison. Shimmering with insight and compassion, Displaced Persons is a profound, exquisite collection that illuminates pivotal moments of transition, longing, and hope." -- page [4] of cover
- Contents:
- The Baghdadi
- The eleventh happiest country
- Beautiful souls
- Displaced persons
- Wonder women
- Remittances
- Bus
- Hunters and gatherers
- Wild animals
- The innocent
- The book of splendor
- The natural world
- Roots
- After.
- Notes:
- Subtitle from cover.
- ISBN:
- 9781941561324
- 1941561322
- OCLC:
- 1451126225
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