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The care of strangers : a novel
- Title
- The care of strangers : a novel / Ellen Michaelson.
- Author
- Michaelson, Ellen
- Publication
- Brooklyn : Melville House, [2020]
- ©2020
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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. | Book/Text | Use in library | JFC 21-89 | Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315 |
Details
- Description
- 209 pages; 18 cm
- Summary
- "Working as an orderly in a gritty Brooklyn public hospital, Sima is often reminded by her superiors that she's the least important person there. An immigrant who, with her mother, escaped vicious anti-Semitism in Poland, she spends her shifts transporting patients, observing the doctors and residents ... and quietly nurturing her aspirations to become a doctor herself by going to night school. Now just one credit short of graduating, she finds herself faltering in the face of pressure from her mother not to overreach, and to settle for the life she has now. Everything changes when Sima encounters Mindy Kahn, an intern doctor struggling through her residency. Sensing a fellow outsider in need of support, Sima bonds with Mindy over their patients, and learns the power of truly letting yourself care for another person, helping to give her the courage to face her past, and take control of her future. A moving story about vulnerability and friendship, From the Love of Strangers is the story of one woman's discovery that sometimes interactions with strangers are the best way to find yourself."--Provided by publisher.
- Subject
- Women immigrants > Fiction
- Jews, Polish > New York (State) > New York > Fiction
- Hospitals > Employees > Fiction
- Women medical students > Fiction
- Women physicians > Fiction
- Interpersonal relations > Fiction
- Female friendship > Fiction
- Female friendship
- Hospitals > Employees
- Interpersonal relations
- Jews, Polish
- Women immigrants
- Women medical students
- Women physicians
- Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.) > Fiction
- New York (State) > New York
- New York (State) > New York > Brooklyn
- Genre/Form
- Fiction.
- Historical fiction.
- Medical fiction.
- Psychological fiction.
- Call Number
- JFC 21-89
- ISBN
- 9781612198682
- 1612198686
- LCCN
- 2020943551
- OCLC
- 1192356769
- Author
- Michaelson, Ellen, author.
- Title
- The care of strangers : a novel / Ellen Michaelson.
- Publisher
- Brooklyn : Melville House, [2020]
- Copyright Date
- ©2020
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Research Call Number
- JFC 21-89