num_pages: 192
description: A portrait of a life in two snapshotsIts 1957 and Miriam Moscowitz is starting her final year of university with unwavering ambition. She is a passionate student who studies hard dates a handsome Jewish man with a good job and is the apple of her fathers eye (and worry of her mothers). But when a meeting with a professor she admires turns sour her dreams of a life immersed in literature are extinguished andperhaps for the first timeshe becomes unsure of how to break a path for herself.Its 2005 and Miriam is readying her backyard for a wedding. She picks up one of her books from 1957 and reads the marginalia written in her young minuscule handwriting. She wonders what the young person who had written all these words almost half a century ago has to do with the older woman who is deciphering them now.The Student is a compassionate and compelling novel that brings together two pivotal times in history. In beautiful prose it reveals how we are shaped by  and try to overcome  the contraints of our times.
language: English
title: The Student
publisher: FreeHand Books