Nine folds make a paper swan
By: Ruth Gilligan
Edition: First U.S. edition.
Publisher: Tin House Books
Published: 2017
Language: eng
Number of pages: 336
ISBN-13: 9781941040492
Copyright date: 2016
Subjects: Jews; Identity; Fiction
Other titles: 9 folds make a paper swan
Description: "At the start of the twentieth century, a young girl and her family emigrate from Lithuania in search of a better life in America, only to land on the Emerald Isle instead. In 1958, a mute Jewish boy locked away in a mental institution outside of Dublin forms an unlikely friendship with a man consumed by the story of the love he lost nearly two decades earlier. And in present-day London, an Irish journalist is forced to confront her conflicting notions of identity and family when her Jewish boyfriend asks her to make a true leap of faith. These three arcs, which span generations and intertwine in revelatory ways, come together to tell the haunting story of Ireland's all-but-forgotten Jewish community."--Amazon.com