num_pages: 180
description: Annie Dawid's first novel chronicles two decades of an ongoing family crisis in a small upstate New York Town. Kay Pinny's husband leaves her to search for the remnants of a Belgian Jewish woman he had met during World War II. Kay struggles to raise her children on her own and the children are unknowingly destined to relive many of their father's mistakes. The children include an alcoholic, a married son who has an affair with an Israeli exchange student, and a daughter who joins the Coast Guard.
language: English
title: York Ferry
titlecomplete: York Ferry
ratings_count: 4
awards: awardedAt: 725875200000
name: Oregon Book Award
category: Fiction (Finalist), awardedAt: 1451635200000
name: International Rubery Book Award
publisher: Cane Hill Pr