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Author:
Zeldis, Kitty, author.
Title:
Not our kind : a novel / Kitty Zeldis.
Edition:
First HarperLuxe edition, Larger print.
Publisher:
HarperLuxean imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers,
Copyright Date:
2018
Description:
465 pages (large print) ; 23 cm.
Subject:
Jewish women--Fiction.
Tutors and tutoring--Fiction.
New York (N.Y.)--History--1898-1951--Fiction.
Large type books.
Domestic fiction.
Historical fiction.
Notes:
"Larger print"--Spine.
Summary:
One rainy morning in June, two years after the end of World War II, a minor traffic accident brings together Eleanor Moskowitz and Patricia Bellamy. Their encounter seems fated: Eleanor, a teacher and recent Vassar graduate, needs a job. Patricia's difficult thirteen-year-old daughter Margaux, recovering from polio, needs a private tutor. Though she feels out of place in the Bellamys' rarefied and elegant Park Avenue milieu, Eleanor forms an instant bond with Margaux. Soon the idealistic young woman is filling the bright young girl's mind with Shakespeare and Latin. Though her mother, a hat maker with a little shop on Second Avenue, disapproves, Eleanor takes pride in her work, even if she must use the name "Moss" to enter the Bellamys' restricted doorman building each morning, and feels that Patricia's husband, Wynn, may have a problem with her being Jewish. Invited to keep Margaux company at the Bellamys' country home in a small town in Connecticut, Eleanor meets Patricia's unreliable, bohemian brother, Tom, recently returned from Europe. The spark between Eleanor and Tom is instant and intense. Flushed with new romance and increasingly attached to her young pupil, Eleanor begins to feel more comfortable with Patricia and much of the world she inhabits. As the summer wears on, the two women's friendship grows--until one hot summer evening, a line is crossed, and both Eleanor and Patricia will have to make important decisions--choices that will reverberate through their lives. Gripping and vividly told, Not Our Kind illuminates the lives of two women on the cusp of change--and asks how much our pasts can and should define our futures.
A minor traffic accident brings together Eleanor Moskowitz, a teacher and recent Vassar graduate, who needs a job; and Patricia Bellamy, whose teenage daughter Margaux is recovering from polio and needs a private tutor. Soon idealistic Eleanor is filling the bright young girl's mind with Shakespeare and Latin. Though her mother, a hat maker with a little shop on Second Avenue, disapproves, Eleanor takes pride in her work, even if she feels that Patricia's husband, Wynn, may have a problem with her being Jewish. Invited to keep Margaux company at the Bellamys' country home in Connecticut, Eleanor meets Patricia's bohemian brother, Tom, recently returned from the war in Europe. One hot summer evening a line is crossed, and both Eleanor and Patricia will have to make choices that will reverberate through their lives. -- adapted from publisher info.
ISBN:
0062864378
9780062864376
Locations:
BRPD251 -- Adel Public Library (Adel)
CAPH522 -- Iowa City Public Library (Iowa City)
JMPC081 -- Madrid Public Library (Madrid)

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