An Absence of Cousins : A Novel by Lore Segal

An Absence of Cousins : A Novel by Lore SegalIlka Weisz is in need not just of friends but 'elective cousins'. She has left her home in New York to accept a junior teaching post at the prestigious Concordance Institute, a liberal college in bucolic Connecticut. But how can she, a Jewish refugee from Vienna, find a new set to belong to a surrogate family? Might the Shakespeares the institute's director and his wry, acerbic wife hold the key? In these interlinked New Yorker stories, Lore Segal

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