Paper is White

Paper is White

<div> <p> When oral historian Ellen Margolis and her girlfriend decide to get married, Ellen realizes that she can't go through with a wedding until she tells her grandmother. There's only one problem: her grandmother is dead. </p> <p> As the two young women beat their own early path toward marriage equality, Ellen's longing to plumb that voluminous silence draws her into a clandestine entanglement with a wily Holocaust survivor—a woman with more to hide than tell—and a secret search for buried history. If there is to be a wedding Ellen must decide: How much do you need to share to be true to the one you love? </p> <p> Set in ebullient, 1990s Dot-com era San Francisco, <em>Paper is White</em> is a novel about the gravitational pull of the past and the words we must find to make ourselves whole. </p> <p> <strong>Hilary Zaid</strong> is an alumna of the Community of Writers at Squaw Valley and the Tin House Writer's Workshop. Her short story "For Non-Speakers of the Mother Tongue" (<em>Tahoma Literary Review</em>, Winter 2017) has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize, and "The Dark Between the Stars" won the 2014 BLOOM Fiction Chapbook Prize. Hilary works as a freelance editor in Oakland, California. </p> </div>