Elizabeth Poliner

Spinning at the Edges (eBook, ePUB)

A Novel

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Spinning at the Edges is, simply, a marvel."Edward P. Jones, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Known World

From the author of the acclaimed As Close to Us as Breathing, a captivating novel steeped in history, revealing the bonds of family and community, and the healing powers hidden inside broken hearts.

Ruth Pearl has lived in the small New England town of Wells, Connecticut on the shore of Lake Topaqua for much of her adult life. Decades back, she and her parents fled German-occupied Amsterdam after the murder of her beloved older sister Sophia. Her view of Lake Topaqua, in the wake of such loss, has long been a deep comfort to Ruth.

But in the winter of 2000, Ruth's neighbor builds an addition to his home that blocks Ruth's lake view, disrupting her peace and sense of control. She seeks a legal resolution and finds none. Her helplessness sparks fear that her past is happening again.

Ruth heads out one day to skate on the lake only to spot a boy, in the distance, falling through the ice. County judge Arthur Cantrell also witnesses the fall, and together Ruth and the judge save sixteen-year-old Ian Lima's life. The act is, for all of them, redemptive. Over the days to come Ruth and Arthur help to heal Ian, both physically and mentally, and all three find unexpected solace. Ruth even feels able, at long last, to share the story of her life during the Holocaust with her adult daughter.

Set against the backdrop of the controversial 2000 presidential election, dramatizing the growing interconnection between disparate characters' lives, and steeped in history both recent and remembered, Spinning at the Edges is the story of a woman, a family, a community, the stories that bind us, and how loveand even democracyare fragile concepts in a changing, spinning world.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: HarperCollins
• Seitenzahl: 304
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. Mai 2026
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780063434547
• Artikelnr.: 75171074

Autorenporträt

Elizabeth Poliner is the author of the novel As Close to Us as Breathing, which won the Janet Heidinger Kafka Prize in Fiction and was a finalist for the Library of Virginia's People's Choice Award in Fiction and the Ribalow Prize. She has also published a poetry collection, What You Know in Your Hands, and a novel-in-stories, Mutual Life & Casualty. Her stories have been published in the Kenyon Review, TriQuarterly, Michigan Quarterly Review, Story, and Colorado Review, among others. She lives in Virginia.