Large Print Material
As close to us as breathing
Record details
- ISBN: 1410490777
- ISBN: 9781410490773
- ISBN: 9781410490773 : HRD
- ISBN: 1410490777 : HRD
- Physical Description: 547 pages (large print) ; 23 cm.
- Edition: Large print edition.
- Publisher: Waterville, Maine : Thorndike Press, 2016.
- Copyright: ©2016
Content descriptions
| Summary, etc.: | 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? |
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| Subject: | Sisters Fiction Jewish women Fiction Jewish families Fiction Adultery Fiction Vacation homes Fiction Children Death Fiction Accidents Fiction Life change events Fiction Large type books |
| Genre: | Domestic fiction. |
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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| Killingworth Library Association | LP FIC POL (Text) | 33420145287158 | Adult Large Type | Available | - |
| Milford Public Library | POLINER Elizabeth (Text) | 34013077565607 | Adult Fiction Large Type | Checked out | 04/29/2024 |
| Woodbury Public Library | LP FIC POLINER (Text)
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34018150359026 | Adult Large Type | Available | - |
