You are not what we expected

The Resource You are not what we expected

Label

You are not what we expected

Statement of responsibility

Sidura Ludwig

Language

eng

Summary

"When Elaine Levine's eccentric older brother, Isaac, moves back from LA to the quiet suburb of Thornhill, Ontario, to help her care for her suddenly motherless grandchildren, he finds himself embroiled in even more neighbourhood drama than he would like. Meanwhile, a nanny, miles from her own family in the Philippines, cares for a young boy who doesn't fit in at school. In a house down the street, a young mother is given the news that her marriage is over by her mother-in-law while her husband sits silent. And a woman in mid-life contends with the task of cleaning out the house in which she grew up, while her teenage son struggles with why his dad moved out. This stunningly intimate collection of stories, which spans fifteen years in the lives of the Levine family and the other characters, is an exquisite portrait of a Jewish community, the secular and religious families who inhabit it, and the tensions that exist there, by a writer with a keen eye for detail, a gentle sense of humour, and an immense literary talent."--

Additional physical form

Issued also in electronic format.

Assigning source

Provided by publisher

Cataloging source

NLC

Dewey number

813/.6

Index

no index present

Literary form

short stories

Context

Context of You are not what we expected

Structured data from the Bibframe namespace is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License by Grosse Pointe Public Library. Additional terms may apply to data associated with third party namespaces.

You are not what we expected

Resource Information

The work You are not what we expected represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Grosse Pointe Public Library. This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Language Material, Books.

Context

Work of

You are not what we expected Resource Information The work You are not what we expected represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Grosse Pointe Public Library. This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Language Material, Books.

Context

Work of

You are not what we expected

Resource Information

The work You are not what we expected represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Grosse Pointe Public Library. This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Language Material, Books.