TY  - BOOK
AU  - Irving,John
TI  - Queen Esther: a novel 
SN  - 9781501189449
U1  - 813.54 
PY  - 2025///
CY  - New York
PB  - Simon & Schuster
KW  - Physicians
KW  - Fiction
KW  - Orphanages
KW  - Jewish children
KW  - Jewish women
KW  - Antisemitism
KW  - Adopted children
KW  - Identity (Psychology)
KW  - New Hampshire
KW  - Vienna (Austria)
KW  - Israel
KW  - Historical fiction
KW  - lcgft
KW  - Bildungsromans
KW  - Novels
N2  - "Esther Nacht is born in Vienna in 1905. Her father dies on board the ship to Portland, Maine; her mother is murdered by anti-Semites in Portland. Dr. Larch knows it won't be easy to find a Jewish family to adopt Esther; in fact, he won't find any family who'll adopt her. When Esther is fourteen, soon to be a ward of the state, Dr. Larch meets the Winslows, a philanthropic New England family with a history of providing foster care for unadopted orphans. The Winslows aren't Jewish, but they despise anti-Semitism. Esther's gratitude for the Winslows is unending; even as she retraces her roots back to Vienna, she never stops loving and protecting the Winslows. In the final chapter, set in Jerusalem in 1981, Esther Nacht is seventy-six"--
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