Girl Unwrapped
Gabriella Goliger · 2011
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A powerful tale of the burdens and blessings of history, the divided self, and the quest to be whole, *Girl Unwrapped* is a coming-of-age story set in 1960s Montreal. Toni Goldblatt's awakening to taboo desire conflicts with the expectations of her Holocaust-scarred parents and with the conservative mores of her times. Yearning to reinvent herself, she flees to Israel in the wake of the 1967 war, but the Zionist dream doesn't save her; instead, she finds the realities of life in the Middle East more complex than she imagined, and that her quest for normalcy has been thwarted. Only on her return to Montreal, when she discovers kindred spirits in the underground lesbian bar scene, does Toni begin to accept herself and find her own path. Achingly honest, Gabriella Goliger's *Girl Unwrapped* is a novel about forbidden love, isolation and the search for personal truth despite the stranglehold of family history.
Book details
- Year
- 2011
- Language
- English
- Publisher
- Arsenal Pulp Press
- Editions
- 1
- Pages
- 340
- ISBN
- 9781551523750
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