Nine Folds Make a Paper Swan (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781941040492)

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. Ruth Gilligan's beautiful and heartbreaking Nine Folds Make a Paper Swan explores the question of just how far we will go to understand who we really are, and to feel at home in the world.

Author: Ruth Gilligan
ISBN-10: 1941040497
ISBN-13: 9781941040492
Publisher: Tin House Books
Language: English
Published: 01/24/2017
Pages: 400
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.95lbs
Size: 8.40h x 5.40w x 0.90d

Review Citation(s):
Library Journal 10/01/2016 pg. 73
Publishers Weekly 10/24/2016
Kirkus Reviews 11/15/2016
Booklist 01/01/2017 pg. 49
Shelf Awareness 02/07/2017
Shelf Awareness 12/12/2017