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Informationen zum Autor Alice Mattison is the award-winning author of four story collections and five novels, including Nothing Is Quite Forgotten in Brooklyn . She teaches fiction in the graduate writing program at Bennington College in Vermont and lives in New Haven, Connecticut. Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung 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.
