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Flamboyant

When Chana Landau Begins To Teach at Manhattan's Harvey Milk High School, she 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, who claims to be half-Jewish and is an accomplished writer. When appearances prove to be deceptive, the inexperienced teacher must confront a profound crisis in her faith in God and the principles of her religion.With insight, warmth, and humor, Elizabeth Swados creates a unique and memorable friendship between two very different people bound together by their common characteristics of the heart.

  • Format
  • hardcover
  • Pages
  • 244
  • Language
  • english
  • ISBN
  • 978-0-312-19547-2
  • EAN
  • 9780312195472
  • Genres
  • queer
  • Release date
  • 1998