Product Description: Girl Unwrapped is a girl's coming-of-age story set in 1960s Montreal about the burdens and blessings of history, the divided self, and the quest to be whole. Toni Goldblatt's awakening to taboo desire conflicts with her Holocaust-scarred parents' expectations...read more

Product Description: Gabriella Goliger's finely honed and exacting prose evokes the troubled lives of Ernst and Hannah Birnbaum, displaced German Jews who flee Hitler but cannot escape the shadow of the Holocaust. Their uprooted existence takes them from Europe to the Holy Land and eventually to Montreal, where they attempt to create a shelter for their children, Rachel and Avi, despite a strained marriage and all that they have lost...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)