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The Same Embrace
by Lowenthal, Michael
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- Paperback
- Condition
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- ISBN 10
- 0452279755
- ISBN 13
- 9780452279759
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Synopsis
The Same Embrace tells the powerful story of two young men struggling against a heritage of intolerance and silence. Twins Jacob and Jonathan were inseparable while growing up in their second-generation-American Jewish family. As adults, though, they are almost hopelessly estranged--Jacob is a gay activist in Boston, while Jonathan lives the strict, disciplined life of an Orthodox student at a yeshiva in Jerusalem. In the shadow of a tragedy, Jacob travels to Israel in the hopes of finding common ground with his brother. But his twin's new assurance and faith force Jacob to reexamine his own sexual and religious identities, as well as his place in his complex and haunted family history. An ultimate confrontation between the brothers lays bare the shattering secrets of a legacy that began during the Holocaust. Alternating between the present and Jacob's childhood memories, The Same Embrace moves gracefully from anger and alienation toward forgiveness and acceptance. A striking debut, this novel depicts a quintessentially American search for belonging.
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- Priceless Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 024993
- Title
- The Same Embrace
- Author
- Lowenthal, Michael
- Format/Binding
- Paperback
- Book Condition
- Used
- ISBN 10
- 0452279755
- ISBN 13
- 9780452279759
- Publisher
- New York: Plume, 1999
- Place of Publication
- New York, New York, U.s.a.
- Date Published
- 1999
- Keywords
- FICTION/NOVELS
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