Displaced Persons: Stories by Leegant, Joan

Displaced Persons: Stories

Set half in Israel and half in the United States, the stories in this prize-winning collection explore...
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Author: Joan Leegant
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Language: English
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Displaced Persons: Stories by Leegant, Joan

Displaced Persons: Stories

$29.61

Displaced Persons: Stories

$29.61
Author: Joan Leegant
Format: Paperback
Language: English

Set half in Israel and half in the United States, the stories in this prize-winning collection explore the experience of exile, belonging, and what it means to call a place home. A visiting professor from Boston forms an unlikely bond with an Israeli born in Iraq. Two teenage tourists are startled out of their naiveté in a restaurant in Jerusalem's Old City. A gifted yeshiva student spiraling into mental illness takes refuge in the poetry of Walt Whitman. An aged widower returns after sixty years to the Bronx neighborhood of his youth to make amends with a first love he abandoned to go to prison. Shimmering with insight and compassion, Displaced Persons is a profound, exquisite collection that illuminates pivotal moments of transition, longing, and hope.



Author: Joan Leegant
Publisher: New American Press
Published: 06/01/2024
Pages: 316
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.80lbs
Size: 8.00h x 5.25w x 0.71d
ISBN: 9781941561324


Award: Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Awards - Bronze Medal Winner


Review Citation(s):
Foreword 04/25/2024
Kirkus Reviews 07/15/2024

About the Author
Leegant, Joan: - JOAN LEEGANT'S first book of stories, An Hour in Paradise: Stories, won the 2003 PEN/New England Book Award and the Edward Lewis Wallant Award, and was a Finalist for the National Jewish Book Award and a Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers pick. She is also the author of a novel, Wherever You Go. Her prize-winning fiction has appeared in over two dozen literary magazines and anthologies. Formerly an attorney, she has taught at Harvard, Oklahoma State, and Cornish College of the Arts in Seattle where she was also the writer-in-residence at Hugo House. For five years she was the visiting writer at Bar-Ilan University in Tel Aviv where she also spoke at Israeli schools on American literature and culture under the auspices of the U.S. Embassy, and taught English to African refugees and asylum seekers. She lives in Newton, Massachusetts, with her family.

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