The Student is a finalist for the Governor General's Literary Award for fiction. The winners will be announced on Oct. The Student is shortlisted for the City of Toronto Book Award. It is familiar and strange, embarrassing and exhilarating, and she wonders what the young person who had written all these words almost half a century ago had to do with the old woman who read them now. ( From Freehand Books) She reads the marginalia written in her young, minuscule handwriting. She climbs the stairs to her study to look at a book she had carried with her on a bus to Detroit. When the young man abandons her to join the movement back home, Miriam gets on a bus to follow him, no longer sure of anything in her life.įorty-eight years later, Miriam is the about to witness her son's wedding (a newly legal, same-sex marriage). Unsure of how to break a path for herself, she begins a reckless affair with an American student obsessed with the civil rights clashes in the south. But then, in a single moment, her dreams crumble around her. She is a serious and passionate student of literature who studies hard, dates a young Jewish man with a good job, and is the apple of her father's eye and the worry of her mother's. It's 1957 and Miriam Moscowitz is starting her final year of university with unwavering ambition. The Student is a portrait of a life in two snapshots.
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