The Book Borrower
- Authors
- Mattison, Alice
- Publisher
- Harper Perennial
- ISBN
- 9780062232014
- Date
- 1980-01-01T00:00:00+00:00
- Size
- 0.30 MB
- Lang
- en
On the day they first meet in a city playground, Deborah Laidlaw lends Toby Ruben a book called *Trolley Girl*, the memoir of a forgotten trolley strike in the 1920s, written by the sister of a fiery Jewish revolutionary who played an important, ultimately tragic role in the events. Young mothers with babies, Toby and Deborah become instant friends. It is a relationship that will endure for decades—through the vagaries of marriage, career, and child-rearing, through heated discussions of politics, ethics, and life—until an insurmountable argument takes the two women down divergent paths. But in the aftermath of crisis and sorrow, it is a borrowed book, long set aside and forgotten, that will unite Toby and Deborah once again.