Girl Unwrapped by Gabriella Goliger

Girl Unwrapped by Gabriella Goliger

Winner, Ottawa Book Award for Fiction

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 re-invent herself, she flees to Israel in the wake of the 1967 war, but the Zionist dream doesn'tsave 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.

Now in its second printing

Gabriella Goliger: Gabriella Goliger's first book, Song of Ascent, won the Upper Canada Writer's Craft Award; she is also the winner of the Journey Prize for Short Fiction. Her work has been published in numerous journals and anthologies. She has been involved with the Canadian Jewish peace movement for twenty-five years.

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ISBN 13	9781551523750
ISBN 10	1551523752
Title	Girl Unwrapped
Author	Gabriella Goliger
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	Arsenal Pulp Press
Year published	2011-04-01
Number of pages	336
Cover note	Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.