Nine Folds Make a Paper Swan

By Ruth Gilligan

Book Overview

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.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1941040497
• ISBN13: 9781941040492
• Release Date: January 2017
• Publisher: Tin House Books
• Length: 400 Pages
• Weight: 0.98 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.4" x 8.4"