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Author Ullman, Ellen.

Title By blood / Ellen Ullman.

Imprint New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2012.

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Location Call No. Status
 Burlington Public Library - Adult Department  FIC ULL    Check Shelf
 East Hartford, Raymond Library - Adult Department  F ULLMAN    Check Shelf
 Farmington, Main Library - Adult Department  FICTION ULLMAN    Check Shelf
 Farmington, Main Library - Adult Department  FICTION ULLMAN    Check Shelf
 Newington, Lucy Robbins Welles Library - Adult Department  F ULLMAN, E.    Check Shelf
 Plainville Public Library - Adult Fiction  FIC ULLMAN    Check Shelf
 South Windsor Public Library - Adult Fiction  ULLMAN    Check Shelf
 Wethersfield Public Library - Adult Fiction  FIC ULLMAN    Check Shelf
Edition 1st ed.
Description 378 pages ; 24 cm
Summary "San Francisco in the 1970s. Free love has given way to radical feminism, psychedelic ecstasy to hard-edged gloom. The Zodiac Killer stalks the streets. A disgraced professor takes an office in a downtown tower to plot his return. But the walls are thin and he's distracted by voices from next door--his neighbor is a psychologist, and one of her patients dislikes the hum of the white-noise machine. And so he begins to hear about the patient's troubles with her female lover, her conflicts with her adoptive WASP family, and her quest to track down her birth mother. The professor is not just absorbed but enraptured. And the further he is pulled into the patient's recounting of her dramas--and the most profound questions of her own identity--the more he needs the story to move forward. The patient's questions about her birth family have led her to a Catholic charity that trafficked freshly baptized orphans out of Germany after World War II. But confronted with this new self-- "I have no idea what it means to say 'I'm a Jew'"--The patient finds her search stalled. Armed with the few details he's gleaned, the professor takes up the quest and quickly finds the patient's mother in records from a German displaced-persons camp. But he can't let on that he's been eavesdropping, so he mocks up a reply from an adoption agency the patient has contacted and drops it in the mail. Through the wall, he hears how his dear patient is energized by the news, and so is he. He unearths more clues and invests more and more in this secret, fraught, triangular relationship: himself, the patient, and her therapist, who is herself German. His research leads them deep into the history of displaced-persons camps, of postwar Zionism, and--most troubling of all--of the Nazi Lebensborn program"-- Provided by publisher.
Subject Adoptees -- Fiction.
College teachers -- Fiction.
Identity (Psychology) -- Fiction.
Triangles (Interpersonal relations) -- Fiction.
San Francisco (Calif.) -- Fiction.
California -- History -- 1950- -- Fiction.
FICTION -- Literary.
FICTION -- Jewish.
FICTION -- Family Life.
Adoptees. (OCoLC)fst00797063
College teachers. (OCoLC)fst00868114
Identity (Psychology) (OCoLC)fst00966892
Triangles (Interpersonal relations) (OCoLC)fst01156439
California. (OCoLC)fst01204928
California -- San Francisco. (OCoLC)fst01204481
Adoptees -- Fiction.
Teachers -- Fiction.
Identity (Psychology) -- Fiction.
San Francisco (Calif.) -- Fiction.
California -- History -- Fiction.
Chronological Term Since 1950
Genre/Form Psychological fiction. (OCoLC)fst01726481
Fiction. (OCoLC)fst01423787
History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
Psychological fiction.
Psychological fiction.
ISBN 9780374117559 (hardback)
0374117551 (hardback)
9781250023964
1250023963
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