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and nationalist ideologues are urging them to reassume their “primary responsibility”—to produce babies for the nation

The Book Borrower: A Novel Spencer Nadler made substantial by the exceptionalAuthor Contributor(s): Mattison, Alice Publisher: Harper Perennial Date: 9 16 2008 Binding: Paperback Condition: NEW On the day they first meet in a city playground, Deborah Laidlaw lends Toby Ruben a book called Trolley Girl, 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