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Willa & Hesper
- Title
- Willa & Hesper / Amy Feltman.
- Author
- Feltman, Amy
- Publication
- New York : Grand Central Publishing, 2019.
- ©2019
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person. | Text | Use in library | JFD 19-2041 | Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315 |
Details
- Description
- 293 pages; 22 cm
- Summary
- For fans of What Belongs to You by Garth Greenwell and The Futures by Anna Pitoniak, a soul-piercing debut that explores the intertwining of past and present, queerness, and coming of age in uncertain times. Willa's darkness enters Hesper's light late one night in Brooklyn. Theirs is a whirlwind romance until Willa starts to know Hesper too well, to crawl into her hidden spaces, and Hesper shuts her out. She runs, following her fractured family back to her grandfather's hometown of Tbilisi, Georgia, looking for the origin story that he is no longer able to tell. But once in Tbilisi, cracks appear in her grandfather's history--and a massive flood is heading toward Georgia, threatening any hope for repair. Meanwhile, heartbroken Willa is so desperate to leave New York that she joins a group trip for Jewish twentysomethings to visit Holocaust sites in Germany and Poland, hoping to override her emotional state. When it proves to be more fraught than home, she must come to terms with her past--the ancestral past, her romantic past, and the past that can lead her forward. Told from alternating perspectives, and ending in the shadow of Trump's presidency, Willa & Hesper is a deeply moving, cerebral, and timely debut.
- Alternative Title
- Willa and Hesper
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Fiction.
- Call Number
- JFD 19-2041
- ISBN
- 9781538712542
- 1538712547
- 9781478999812 (canceled/invalid)
- 9781538712566 (canceled/invalid)
- LCCN
- 2018023076
- OCLC
- 1035798930
- Author
- Feltman, Amy, author.
- Title
- Willa & Hesper / Amy Feltman.
- Publisher
- New York : Grand Central Publishing, 2019.
- Copyright Date
- ©2019
- Edition
- First edition.
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Research Call Number
- JFD 19-2041