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FlamboyántElizabeth Swados

Flamboyánt

1998244 pages
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Chana Landau reluctantly accepts a teaching position at Manhattan's Harvey Milk High School to help finance her upcoming wedding. When she begins her job, Chana leaves the protection of her familiar, safe world - a traditional Orthodox Jewish enclave in Brooklyn - for a school that embodies everything she has been forbidden to experience. In a hostile classroom filled with sexually "different" teens, street kids, and drug addicts, Chana's one support is Flamboyant. Flamboyant is a fifteen-year-old prostitute and an accomplished writer, who charms Chana by telling her that she is half-Jewish…

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2 editions
  • Paperback · English · 1999
    Picador · 256 pages · 9780312204082
  • Other · English · 1998
    Picador USA · 244 pages · 9780312195472
Jewish womenWomen teachersJewsFictionGay youthTeacher-student relationships