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.
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?
Set in ebullient,
1990s Dot-com era San Francisco, Paper is White is a novel
about the gravitational pull of the past and the words we must find
to make ourselves whole.
