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list price: $19.95
edition:Paperback
also available: eBook
category: Fiction
published: May 2020
ISBN:9781487007348
publisher: House of Anansi Press Inc
imprint: Astoria

You Are Not What We Expected

by Sidura Ludwig

tagged: short stories (single author), jewish
Description

This stunningly intimate collection of stories is an exquisite portrait of a Jewish community the secular and religious families who inhabit it and the tensions that exist there that illuminates the unexpected ways we remain connected during times of change.

When Uncle Isaac moves back from L.A. to help his sister, Elaine Levine, care for her suddenly motherless grandchildren, he finds himself embroiled in even more drama than he would like in their suburban neighbourhood. Meanwhile, a nanny miles from her own family in the Philippines, cares for a young boy who doesn’t fit in at school. 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. And down the street, a mother and her two daughters prepare for a wedding and transitions they didn’t see coming.

Spanning fifteen years in the lives of a multi-generational family and their neighbours, this remarkable collection is an intimate portrait of a suburban Jewish community by a writer with a keen eye for detail, a gentle sense of humour, and an immense literary talent.

About the Author

Sidura Ludwig

Awards
  • Short-listed, Vine Awards for Canadian Jewish Literature: Fiction

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