The Papercutter

The Papercutter - Paperback

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The Papercutter - Paperback

The Papercutter - Paperback

by Cindy Rizzo
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by Cindy Rizzo (Author)

A deeply polarized and ungovernable United States of America has separated into two nations--the God Fearing States (GFS) and the United Progressive Regions (UPR).


Judith Braverman, a teenager living in an Orthodox Jewish community in the GFS, is not only a talented artist accomplished in the ancient craft of papercutting, she also has the gift of seeing into peoples' souls--and can tell instantly if someone is good or evil.


Jeffrey Schwartz has no love for religion or conformity and yearns to escape to the freedom of the UPR. When he's accepted into an experimental pen pal program and paired with Dani Fine, an openly queer girl in the UPR, he hopes that he can finally find a way out.


As danger mounts and their alarm grows, Judith embeds a secret code in her papercuts so that she and Jeffrey can tell Dani what's happening to Jews in the GFS without raising suspicions from the government. When the three arrange a quick, clandestine meeting, Jeffrey is finally faced with the choice to flee or to stay and resist. And Judith is reeling from a pull toward Dani that is unlike anything she has ever felt before.


Content note: the book contains one brief memory of sexual assault of a male teen by another male teen.


Book 1 of The Split Series.
Number of Pages: 198
Dimensions: 0.6 x 8.1 x 5.4 IN
Publication Date: June 22, 2021
ISBN9781642472479
Author Cindy Rizzo
PublisherBella Books
GenreYoung adult
FormatPaperback
PublishedJune 2021
LanguageENG- English
Pages198
Weight1.0 lb
Target AudienceTeens & young adults and Adults
Print SizeStandard Print

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Young Adult Fantasy Young Adult Fiction Young Adult LGBTQ+ Young Adults

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About Cindy Rizzo

Cindy Rizzo lives in New York City with her partner, Jennifer, and the requisite two cats issued to every lesbian household (well, most). She has worked in philanthropy for many years and has a long history of involvement in the LGBT community, including membership on the founding board of Gay & Lesbian Advocates and Defenders (GLAD), the organization that first brought marriage equality to the US. In the 1970s and 1980s she wrote for Boston's Gay Community News and has published essays in the anthologies, Lesbians Raising Sons and Homefronts: Controversies in Non-Traditional Parenting. She was the co-editor of a fiction anthology, All the Ways Home, published in 1995 (New Victoria) in which her story "Herring Cove" was included. She serves on the boards of Congregation Beth Simchat Torah in New York and Funders for LGBT Issues. She is the mother, and her partner is the step-mother, of two grown sons and a wonderful daughter-in-law. You can contact Cindy by email at cindyrizzobooks@gmail.com, via Facebook www.facebook.com/ctrizzo, through her blog, www.cindyrizzo.wordpress.com, or on Twitter @cindyrizzo.

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