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Displaced Persons: Stories

Displaced Persons: Stories

Leegant, Joan

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ISBN10: 1941561322
ISBN13: 9781941561324
Publisher: New American Press
Published: Jun 1 2024
Pages: 316
Weight: 0.80
Height: 0.71 Width: 5.25 Depth: 8.00
Language: English
Awards: Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Awards

Set half in Israel and half in the United States, the stories in this prize-winning collection explore the experience of exile, belonging, and what it means to call a place home. A visiting professor from Boston forms an unlikely bond with an Israeli born in Iraq. Two teenage tourists are startled out of their naiveté in a restaurant in Jerusalem's Old City. A gifted yeshiva student spiraling into mental illness takes refuge in the poetry of Walt Whitman. An aged widower returns after sixty years to the Bronx neighborhood of his youth to make amends with a first love he abandoned to go to prison. Shimmering with insight and compassion, Displaced Persons is a profound, exquisite collection that illuminates pivotal moments of transition, longing, and hope.

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