Book Borrower

<p>On the day they first meet in a city playground Deborah Laidlaw lends Toby Ruben a book called <em>Trolley Girl</em> the memoir of a forgotten trolley strike in the 1920s written by the sister of a fiery Jewish revolutionary who played an important ultimately tragic role in the events. Young mothers with babies Toby and Deborah become instant friends. It is a relationship that will endure for decades--through the vagaries of marriage career and child-rearing through heated discussions of politics ethics and life--until an insurmountable argument takes the two women down divergent paths. But in the aftermath of crisis and sorrow it is a borrowed book long set aside and forgotten that will unite Toby and Deborah once again.</p>