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Record Nr.

UNINA9910148652403321

Autore

Poliner Elizabeth

Titolo

As close to us as breathing : a novel / / Elizabeth Poliner

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, New York : , : Little, Brown and Company, , [2016]

©2016

ISBN

0-316-38411-9

0-316-26553-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (291 pages)

Disciplina

813/.6

Soggetti

Jewish women

Life change events

Sisters

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

Cover -- Title Page -- Welcome -- Dedication -- Epigraph -- Part One -- 1: An Inheritance of Here -- 2: Breathing -- 3: Of Minyans and Baseball -- 4: What They Tell Us We Are -- 5: Fairies and Genetic Mutations -- 6: A Stranger at Shabbos -- 7: No More Friday Claustrophobia -- Part Two -- 8: Shnel -- 9: The Reason for Tootsie Rolls -- 10: Other Ways, Other Possibilities -- 11: Anything Left to Give -- 12: Not Chocolate, Not Strawberry -- Part Three -- 13: Bottom of the Eighth -- 14: A Mob of Rules -- 15: Something to Do -- 16: A Pair of Leibritskys -- 17: Displaced Persons -- Acknowledgments -- About the Author -- Also by Elizabeth Poliner -- Lee Boudreaux Books -- Newsletter -- Table of Contents -- Copyright.

Sommario/riassunto

Enjoying summertime weeks of freedom at a popular Jewish beach with their children, beautiful Ada thrives away from her strict husband, while chef Vivie develops diplomatic skills, and unmarried Bec is forced to choose between family beliefs and her passion for a married man.