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.
Genre: Literary Fiction
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.
Genre: Literary Fiction
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