On Borrowed Wings: A Novel

On Borrowed Wings: A Novel
by Chandra Prasad

On Borrowed Wings: A Novel
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Author: Chandra Prasad
Edition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2008-09-09
ISBN: 0743297830
Number of pages: 336
Publisher: Washington Square Press

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Book Review: A Must Read!
Summary: 5 Stars

I couldn't put this book down, I was so enthralled with the story. I was on the edge of my seat reading it, wondering if the main characters secret would be revealed! Beautifully written, the context of the story and the historical accurateness makes you become even more attached to the main character, Adele. You won't regret this read.

Summary of On Borrowed Wings: A Novel

Adele Pietra has heard her mother say that her destiny is carved in the same brilliantly hued granite her father and brother cleave from the Stony Creek mine: she is to marry a quarryman. But when Adele's brother, Charles, dies in a mining accident, Adele sees the chance to change her life. Enrolling at Yale as Charles, Adele assumes his identity -- and gender -- as a way to leave behind her mother's expectations and the limitations of her provincial Connecticut town.

To her own surprise, hair chopped and chest bound, Adele falls in naturally with a lively crew of undergraduates: the Jewish Harry Persky with his slick Manhattan know-how, the quiet and mysterious legacy student Phineas, and the lanky, charismatic Wick. And in many ways, Adele faces her freshman year at Yale as would any undergraduate boy: she dreads invasive PE examinations and looks forward to dances, experiments with cigarettes and reads the classics. Through her work with a questionable eugenics professor and her friendship with a local Italian family, Adele confronts her class and ethnicity as never before, all the while fearing that both her crush on Wick and her mother's well-meaning interventions will put an end to her delicate masquerade.

One part social history, one part comingof-age tale, On Borrowed Wings is an impeccably researched first novel that transports us to 1930s Yale, showing us around through the eyes of an unlikely, appealing female narrator.

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