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1 online resource |
| Summary |
A powerful tale of the burdens and blessings of history, the divided self, and the quest to be whole, Girl Unwrapped is a coming-of-age story set in 1960s Montreal. Toni Goldblatt's awakening to taboo desire conflicts with the expectations of her Holocaust-scarred parents and with the conservative mores of her times. Yearning to re-invent herself, she flees to Israel in the wake of the 1967 war, but the Zionist dream doesn't save her; instead, she finds the realities of life in the Middle East more complex than she imagined, and that her quest for normalcy has been thwarted. Achingly honest, Gabriella Goliger's Girl Unwrapped is a novel about forbidden love, isolation, and the search for personal truth despite the stranglehold of family history. |
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Children of Holocaust survivors -- Canada -- Fiction.
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Jews -- Canada -- Fiction.
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Jewish lesbians -- Canada -- Fiction.
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FICTION -- General.
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Children of Holocaust survivors. (OCoLC)fst00855272
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Jewish lesbians. (OCoLC)fst00982828
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Jews. (OCoLC)fst00983135
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Canada. (OCoLC)fst01204310
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic resource.
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Fiction. (OCoLC)fst01423787
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Goliger, Gabriella, 1949- Girl unwrapped. Vancouver : Arsenal Pulp Press, ©2010 9781551523750 (OCoLC)633172943 |
| ISBN |
9781551523910 (electronic book) |
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