The Care of Strangers
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Format
Hardback or Cased Book
ISBN-10
1612198686
ISBN-13
9781612198682
Publisher
Melville House Publishing
Imprint
Melville House Publishing
Country of Manufacture
US
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Nov 10th, 2020
Print length
224 Pages
Weight
162 grams
Dimensions
12.80 x 17.90 x 2.40 cms
Product Classification:
Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)Modern and contemporary fiction: literary and general
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Winner of the 2019 Miami Book Fair/de Groot Prize, The Care of Strangers is a moving story about friendship set in a gritty Brooklyn hospital, where a young woman learns to take charge of her life by taking care of others.
Working as an orderly in a gritty Brooklyn public hospital, Sima is often reminded by her superiors that she''s the least important person there. An immigrant who, with her mother, escaped vicious anti-Semitism in Poland, she spends her shifts transporting patients, observing the doctors and residents ... and quietly nurturing her aspirations to become a doctor herself by going to night school. Now just one credit short of graduating, she finds herself faltering in the face of pressure from her mother not to overreach, and to settle for the life she has now.
Everything changes when Sima encounters Mindy Kahn, an intern doctor struggling through her residency. Sensing a fellow outsider in need of support, Sima bonds with Mindy over their patients, and learns the power of truly letting yourself care for another person, helping to give her the courage to face her past, and take control of her future.
A moving story about vulnerability and friendship, The Care of Strangers is the story of one woman''s discovery that sometimes interactions with strangers are the best way to find yourself.
Working as an orderly in a gritty Brooklyn public hospital, Sima is often reminded by her superiors that she''s the least important person there. An immigrant who, with her mother, escaped vicious anti-Semitism in Poland, she spends her shifts transporting patients, observing the doctors and residents ... and quietly nurturing her aspirations to become a doctor herself by going to night school. Now just one credit short of graduating, she finds herself faltering in the face of pressure from her mother not to overreach, and to settle for the life she has now.
Everything changes when Sima encounters Mindy Kahn, an intern doctor struggling through her residency. Sensing a fellow outsider in need of support, Sima bonds with Mindy over their patients, and learns the power of truly letting yourself care for another person, helping to give her the courage to face her past, and take control of her future.
A moving story about vulnerability and friendship, The Care of Strangers is the story of one woman''s discovery that sometimes interactions with strangers are the best way to find yourself.
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