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Poliner, Elizabeth.
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Sisters -- Fiction.
Jewish women -- Fiction.
Families -- Fiction.
Life change events -- Fiction.
Nineteen forties -- Fiction.
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Poliner, Elizabeth.
Sisters -- Fiction.
Jewish women -- Fiction.
Families -- Fiction.
Life change events -- Fiction.
Nineteen forties -- Fiction.
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As close to us as breathing : a novel / Elizabeth Poliner.
by
Poliner, Elizabeth.
Little, Brown and Company, 2016.
Call #:
FICTION
POL
Subjects
Sisters --
Fiction
.
Jewish women --
Fiction
.
Families --
Fiction
.
Life change events --
Fiction
.
Nineteen forties --
Fiction
.
ISBN:
9780316384148
0316384143
Edition:
1st ed.
Description:
358 p. ; 25 cm.
Summary:
"In 1948, a small stretch of the Woodmont, Connecticut shoreline, affectionately named 'Bagel Beach,' has long been a summer destination for Jewish families. Here sisters Ada, Vivie, and Bec assemble at their beloved family cottage, with children in tow and weekend-only husbands who arrive each Friday in time for the Sabbath meal. During the weekdays, freedom reigns. Ada, the family beauty, relaxes and grows more playful, unimpeded by her rule-driven, religious husband. Vivie, once terribly wronged by her sister, is now the family diplomat and an increasingly inventive chef. Unmarried Bec finds herself forced to choose between the family-centric life she's always known and a passion-filled life with the married man with whom she's had a secret years-long affair. But when a terrible accident occurs on the sisters' watch, a summer of hope and self-discovery transforms into a lifetime of atonement and loss for members of this close-knit clan. Seen through the eyes of Molly, who was twelve years old when she witnessed the accident, this is the story of a tragedy and its aftermath, of expanding lives painfully collapsed. Can Molly, decades after the event, draw from her aunt Bec's hard-won wisdom and free herself from the burden that destroyed so many others? Elizabeth Poliner is a masterful storyteller, a brilliant observer of human nature, and in As Close to Us as Breathing she has created an unforgettable meditation on grief, guilt, and the boundaries of identity and love."--From publisher.
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Psychological
fiction
.
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