03159cam a2200325 4500 271245438 TxAuBib 20160831120000.0 ||||||s2016||||||||||||||||||||||||und|u 9780316265539 0316265535 B014E0E9TE Amazon 350b8b9f-2178-429c-828b-179be765681c OverDrive (Reserve ID) 2276267 OverDrive (Product ID) TxAuBib Poliner, Elizabeth. As Close to Us as Breathing [Bridges eBook] : A Novel. Little, Brown and Company, 2016. Format: OverDrive Adobe EPUB eBook, Filesize: 554kB. Format: OverDrive OverDrive Read, Filesize: 554kB. Format: OverDrive Kindle Book. HTML:<b>A multigenerational family saga about the long-lasting reverberations of one tragic summer by "a wonderful talent [who] should be read widely" (Edward P. Jones).</b><br /> In 1948, a small stretch of the Woodmont, Connecticut shoreline, affectionately named "Bagel Beach," has long been a summer destination for Jewish families. Here sisters Ada, Vivie, and Bec assemble at their beloved family cottage, with children in tow and weekend-only husbands who arrive each Friday in time for the Sabbath meal.<br /> During the weekdays, freedom reigns. Ada, the family beauty, relaxes and grows more playful, unimpeded by her rule-driven, religious husband. Vivie, once terribly wronged by her sister, is now the family diplomat and an increasingly inventive chef. Unmarried Bec finds herself forced to choose between the family-centric life she's always known and a passion-filled life with the married man with whom she's had a secret years-long affair.<br /> But when a terrible accident occurs on the sisters' watch, a summer of hope and self-discovery transforms into a lifetime of atonement and loss for members of this close-knit clan. Seen through the eyes of Molly, who was twelve years old when she witnessed the accident, this is the story of a tragedy and its aftermath, of expanding lives painfully collapsed. Can Molly, decades after the event, draw from her aunt Bec's hard-won wisdom and free herself from the burden that destroyed so many others?<br /> Elizabeth Poliner is a masterful storyteller, a brilliant observer of human nature, and in <i>As Close to Us as Breathing</i> she has created an unforgettable meditation on grief, guilt, and the boundaries of identity and love.<br />. Literature. Fiction. Media Type: eBook. Importer Version: 2014-01-08.01 Import Date: 2016-08-30 23:00:03. http://bridges.lib.overdrive.com/ContentDetails.htm?ID=350b8b9f-2178-429c-828b-179be765681c http://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=350b8b9f-2178-429c-828b-179be765681c&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Adobe EPUB eBook) http://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=350b8b9f-2178-429c-828b-179be765681c&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Kindle Book) http://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=350b8b9f-2178-429c-828b-179be765681c&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (OverDrive Read)