Gravity (Young Adult Novels) - Softcover

Lieberman, Leanne

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1554690498 ISBN 13: 9781554690497

Publisher: Orca Book Publishers, 2008

Synopsis

Ellie Gold is an orthodox Jewish teenager living in Toronto in the late eighties. Ellie has no doubts about her strict religious upbringing until she falls in love with another girl at her grandmother's cottage. Aware that homosexuality clashes with Jewish observance, Ellie feels forced to either alter her sexuality or leave her community. Meanwhile, Ellie's mother, Chana, becomes convinced she has a messianic role to play, and her sister, Neshama, chafes against the restrictions of her faith. Ellie is afraid there is no way to be both gay and Jewish, but her mother and sister offer alternative concepts of God that help Ellie find a place for herself as a queer Jew.

About this title

Book Description:

Winner of the So You Think You Can Write? Orca Book Publishers Novel Contest.

From the Back Cover:

"All through dinner a silent rage courses through me. Judaism says I am an abomination, yet God and His commandments are supposed to be good. Mrs. Lowenstein says I can change, but I've tried and it didn't work. Neshama says God is just an idea made up by stupid men who say women can't love other women. What is God anyway? Some big guy in the sky? The creator? Creator of what? I know dinosaur bones are older than the Torah." Winner of So You Think You Can Write? Orca Book Publishers Novel contest. Is there any room in Orthodox Judaism for a distinctly unorthodox Jewish teenager? Ellie Gold has always embraced her faith-at least until she meets Lindsay. Faced with denying her sexuality or abandoning her community, Ellie looks to her mother, sister and grandmother to guide her, but in the end, her decisions are all her own.

About this edition

• Publisher: Orca Book Publishers
• Publication date: 2008
• ISBN 10: 1554690498
• ISBN 13: 9781554690497
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 280