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Author Feltman, Amy, author.

Title Willa & Hesper / Amy Feltman.

Publication Info. New York : Grand Central Publishing, 2019.
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Location Call No. Status
 Berlin-Peck Memorial Library - Adult Fiction  FICTION FELTMAN    Check Shelf
 Bristol, Main Library - Adult Fiction  F FELTMAN    Check Shelf
 New Britain, Main Library - Adult Fiction  FIC FELTMAN, A    Check Shelf
 West Hartford, Noah Webster Library - Non Fiction  F FELTMAN AMY    Check Shelf
Edition First edition.
Description 293 pages ; 22 cm
Summary For fans of What Belongs to You by Garth Greenwell and The Futures by Anna Pitoniak, a soul-piercing debut that explores the intertwining of past and present, queerness, and coming of age in uncertain times. Willa's darkness enters Hesper's light late one night in Brooklyn. Theirs is a whirlwind romance until Willa starts to know Hesper too well, to crawl into her hidden spaces, and Hesper shuts her out. She runs, following her fractured family back to her grandfather's hometown of Tbilisi, Georgia, looking for the origin story that he is no longer able to tell. But once in Tbilisi, cracks appear in her grandfather's history-and a massive flood is heading toward Georgia, threatening any hope for repair. Meanwhile, heartbroken Willa is so desperate to leave New York that she joins a group trip for Jewish twentysomethings to visit Holocaust sites in Germany and Poland, hoping to override her emotional state. When it proves to be more fraught than home, she must come to terms with her past-the ancestral past, her romantic past, and the past that can lead her forward. Told from alternating perspectives, and ending in the shadow of Trump's presidency, WILLA & HESPER is a deeply moving, cerebral, and timely debut.
Subject Lesbians -- Fiction.
Young women -- New York (State) -- New York -- Fiction.
Identity (Psychology) -- Georgia (Republic) -- Fiction.
Lesbians. (OCoLC)fst00996540
Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.) -- Fiction.
Georgia (Republic) -- Fiction.
FICTION / LGBT / Lesbian.
FICTION / Literary.
FICTION / Jewish.
Genre/Form Fiction. (OCoLC)fst01423787
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Added Title Willa and Hesper
ISBN 9781538712542 (hardcover)
1538712547 (hardcover)
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