The Book Borrower

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"Mattison's observations are so minutely compelling that each one feels like a shiny object, once lost but found unexpectedly."
—The New Yorker _
n 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.
^'¦'ExlraorAmary.'''' —Washington Post Book JVorld ,
"An ambitious and original novel." —Wall Street... Tovább

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"Mattison's observations are so minutely compelling that each one feels like a shiny object, once lost but found unexpectedly."
—The New Yorker _
n 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.
^'¦'ExlraorAmary.'''' —Washington Post Book JVorld ,
"An ambitious and original novel." —Wall Street Journal
" [A] powerful book in which the complex weave of a spiritual sisterhood is rendered with depth, intelligence, and wit." —Neivsday
"It's a marvelous galaxy the author has created." —Los Angeles Times
ALICE MATTISON is the acclaimed author of four story collections and five novels, most recently Nothing Is Quite Forgotten in Brooklyn. The Book Borrower and her collections In Case We're Separated and Men Giving Money, Women Yelling were named New York Times Notable Books. Raised in Brooklyn, New York, she teaches fiction in the graduate writing program at Bennington College in Vermont and lives in New Haven, Connecticut. Vissza