Disclosure : This site contains affiliate links to products. We may receive a commission for purchases made through these links.

A Gate At The Stairs

With America quietly gearing up for war in the Middle East, twenty-year-old Tassie Keltjin, a `half-Jewish` farmer`s daughter from the plains of the Midwest, has come to university – escaping her provincial home to encounter the complex world of culture and politics. When she takes a job as a part-time nanny to a couple who seem at once mysterious and glamorous, Tassie is drawn into the life of their newly-adopted child and increasingly complicated household. As her past becomes increasingly alien to her – her parents seem older when she visits; her disillusioned brother ever more fixed on joining the military – Tassie finds herself becoming a stranger to herself. As the year unfolds, love leads her to new and formative experiences – but it is then that the past and the future burst forth in dramatic and shocking ways. Refracted through the eyes of this memorable narrator, A Gate at the Stairs is a lyrical, beguiling and wise novel of our times.

Related Products:

Girl on the Stairs The Woman on the Stairs The Love and Lies of Rukhsana Ali Wildspark: A Ghost Machine Adventure All Over Creation Pic The Last Act of Love: The Story of My Brother and His Sister Stranger on a Train Family Life The Bone Dragon Shanti: Faber Stories A Godawful Small Affair The Night Gate: the Razor-Sharp Finale to the Enzo Macleod Investigations Dreams of Water Past the Shallows Circus of Wonders I-Spy for Grown-Ups: I-Spy at the School Gate: My Mum`s Better Than Your Mum The Enemy At The Gate In the Distance The Aviary Gate Men Like Air How to Read the Air Summertime Dreams From The Endz Americanah Charlie and Me: 421 Miles From Home Searching for Sylvie Lee My Brother Love and Summer The Lesser Bohemians Cardiff, by the Sea In case of fire, do not use elevators, use the stairs Becoming: Adapted for Younger Readers Legend of a Suicide Map of the Invisible World Daughters of Smoke and Fire: A Novel A Run in the Park The Looking-Glass Sisters The Broken Mirrors: Sinalcol Let`s Go Swimming on Doomsday