Paper is White - Softcover

Hilary Zaid is a 2017 Tennessee Williams Scholar at the Sewanee Writers' Conference and an alumna of the Squaw Valley Community of Writers and the Tin House Writers' Workshop. Her short fiction has appeared in print and online in venues, including Lilith Magazine, The Southwest Review, The Utne Reader, CALYX, The Santa Monica Review, and The Tahoma Literary Review. Her stories have been twice nominated for the Pushcart Prize. Hilary works as a freelance editor in Oakland, California. For more about her work, visit hilaryzaid.com.

“Hilary Zaid has written a beautiful, heartbreaking book about the stories that haunt us, about the ways silence can be wielded as a weapon and ultimately about how love between women can be redemptive.” ―Nayomi Munaweera, author of the critically acclaimed novel, Island of a Thousand Mirrors

“One young woman’s late-20th century search for marriage equality and the Holocaust play off each other in Paper is White, distinct and yet merging worlds, a dialogue of whispers.”―Jane Eaton Hamilton, queer activist and author of WeekendPaper is White is a wonderfully tender, inventive exploration of survival, secrets, memory, and love. Zaid’s characters are wholly original and riveting, and this story is funny, moving and necessary; you will love this book.” ―Karen E. Bender, National Book Award finalist of Refund

“Written across histories as seemingly varied as Lithuania’s Jewish Kovno Ghetto and Queer Nation San Francisco, Paper is White connects them in a very different sort of adventure novel, where remembering someone you love becomes one of the most radical things you can do. Zaid is fierce, a rebel with a cause, and her breathtaking leaps of imagination make new worlds possible.”―Alexander Chee, author of Edinburgh and The Queen of the Night

“Paper is White is a funny, bright novel about the stories we think we need and the stories that turn out to matter more than we could have imagined.”―Ramona Ausubel, author of No One is Here Except All of Us and Sons and Daughters of Ease and Plenty

“Paper is White draws you in, word by word, sentence by sentence, until you’re so immersed in its world you can’t stop reading. Exploring the relationship between intimacy and truth-telling, as well as how past secrets complicate present-day commitments, this beautiful novel reveals generations of love.”―Lucy Jane Bledsoe, author of The Evolution of Love

“One young woman’s late-20th century search for marriage equality and the Holocaust play off each other in Paper is White, distinct and yet merging worlds, a dialogue of whispers.”―Jane Eaton Hamilton, queer activist and author of Weekend

“Paper Is White is a beautifully written and emotionally resonant novel, by a writer from whom we can expect to hear much more in the years ahead. Hilary Zaid is a name you’ll want to remember. Her book is one you’ll have a hard time putting down.”―Steve Yarbrough, author of The Unmade World