327 pages
English language
Published Nov. 7, 1999 by Back Bay Books.
3 stars
(1 review)
An aging librarian's memories are stirred by a young woman. The woman is researching her Jewishness after learning that her parents converted to Christianity. The librarian's wife, too, was a Jewess and she committed suicide, despairing of the Holocaust.
Subjects
- Correspondence
- Librarians
- Widowers
- Man-woman relationships
- Fiction