The impossible secrets of Essie Green
By: Jenny Meyerhoff.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Published: 2010
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780374326289
Subjects: Identity -- Fiction; Secrets -- Fiction; Interpersonal relations -- Fiction; Jews -- United States -- Fiction; Cousins -- Fiction; Grandparents -- Fiction; Orphans -- Fiction; Couduct of life -- Fiction; High schools -- Fiction; Schools -- Fiction
Genres: Fiction.
Description: Fifteen-year-old Essie Green, an orphan who has been raised by her secular Jewish grandparents in Michigan, experiences conflicting loyalties and confusing emotions when her aunt, uncle, and cousin move back from New York, and her very religious cousin tries to fit in with the other football players at Essie's high school, one of whom is Essie's popular new boyfriend.