Gravity
Autor Leanne Liebermanen Limba Engleză Paperback – 31 oct 2008 – vârsta de la 14 până la 17 ani
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Sydney Taylor Book Award (2009)
Ellie Gold is an orthodox Jewish teenager living in Toronto in the late eighties. Ellie has no doubts about her strict religious upbringing until she falls in love with another girl at her grandmother's cottage. Aware that homosexuality clashes with Jewish observance, Ellie feels forced to either alter her sexuality or leave her community. Meanwhile, Ellie's mother, Chana, becomes convinced she has a messianic role to play, and her sister, Neshama, chafes against the restrictions of her faith. Ellie is afraid there is no way to be both gay and Jewish, but her mother and sister offer alternative concepts of God that help Ellie find a place for herself as a queer Jew.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9781554690497
ISBN-10: 1554690498
Pagini: 245
Dimensiuni: 141 x 208 x 17 mm
Greutate: 0.33 kg
Editura: Orca Book Publishers
ISBN-10: 1554690498
Pagini: 245
Dimensiuni: 141 x 208 x 17 mm
Greutate: 0.33 kg
Editura: Orca Book Publishers
Recenzii
"Heartfelt - a must for Jewish and GLBT collections."
"This novel explores the world of Orthodox Judaism...[a] powerful book."
"A remarkably sensitive and credible portrait of a girl whose faith collides with her sexuality, and who refuses to compromise either."
"There are few books that deal this frankly with the inner conflict of a religious teen trying to come to terms with her or his sexuality."
"Ellie is a memorable protagonist... any teenager, particularly girls whose family life centres on religion of any sort will connect with Ellie's story."
"Lieberman writes her protagonist seamlessly, in a first-person voice that is so raw and awkward and confessional that it's hard to imagine it isn't a memoir, let alone fiction."
"Lieberman's confidence is impressive. She is in complete command of her material. Her work is like origami, in which meanings gently unfold. She treats Ellie's emerging eroticism with taste and delicacy."
"Gravity is so spot-on in plot, character and motivation that it could be both a novel and the screenplay it's very likely to become. This is a fascinating book - provocative, accessible and taking you where you probably haven't gone before."
"Gravity is a compelling, well-written story that... leaves readers wanting more - and, rightly so, leaves them to draw their own conclusions about whether orthodoxy and homosexuality can coexist."--Cynthia Ramsay"The Jewish Independant" (09/26/2008)
"This novel explores the world of Orthodox Judaism...[a] powerful book."
"A remarkably sensitive and credible portrait of a girl whose faith collides with her sexuality, and who refuses to compromise either."
"There are few books that deal this frankly with the inner conflict of a religious teen trying to come to terms with her or his sexuality."
"Ellie is a memorable protagonist... any teenager, particularly girls whose family life centres on religion of any sort will connect with Ellie's story."
"Lieberman writes her protagonist seamlessly, in a first-person voice that is so raw and awkward and confessional that it's hard to imagine it isn't a memoir, let alone fiction."
"Lieberman's confidence is impressive. She is in complete command of her material. Her work is like origami, in which meanings gently unfold. She treats Ellie's emerging eroticism with taste and delicacy."
"Gravity is so spot-on in plot, character and motivation that it could be both a novel and the screenplay it's very likely to become. This is a fascinating book - provocative, accessible and taking you where you probably haven't gone before."
"Gravity is a compelling, well-written story that... leaves readers wanting more - and, rightly so, leaves them to draw their own conclusions about whether orthodoxy and homosexuality can coexist."--Cynthia Ramsay"The Jewish Independant" (09/26/2008)
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"All through dinner a silent rage courses through me. Judaism says I am an abomination, yet God and His commandments are supposed to be good. Mrs. Lowenstein says I can change, but I've tried and it didn't work. Neshama says God is just an idea made up by stupid men who say women can't love other women. What is God anyway? Some big guy in the sky? The creator? Creator of what? I know dinosaur bones are older than the Torah." Winner of So You Think You Can Write? Orca Book Publishers Novel contest. Is there any room in Orthodox Judaism for a distinctly unorthodox Jewish teenager? Ellie Gold has always embraced her faith-at least until she meets Lindsay. Faced with denying her sexuality or abandoning her community, Ellie looks to her mother, sister and grandmother to guide her, but in the end, her decisions are all her own.
Descriere
An Orthodox Jewish teenager comes to terms with her sexuality and her faith.
Premii
- Sydney Taylor Book Award Notable, 2009