The last day of the war : a novel / Judith Claire Mitchell.

Contents: The Split Skirt -- Leaving -- Library Crimes -- Clowns -- The Weight of the Package -- Dime-Novel Stuff -- A Woman's Name -- Crazy -- The Denominations -- Along with Those Lies -- The Train to Providence -- Stops Along the Way -- Curses -- The Holy Books Do Not Burn -- Ramela -- Boston -- The Espagne -- A as in Amo -- A Tarnished Woman -- Animal, Vegetable, Mineral -- Mind and Matter -- Should This Behavior Continue -- The Last Day of the War -- The White Sisters' Bowling League of America -- Counting to One Hundred -- An Interlude: Meanwhile, over in France -- The First Day of the Peace -- A Dive Called Lulu's -- Baptisms -- Trumpets -- Paper Ladles -- Sheep -- Un Honneur Grand -- Cherchez la Femme -- Sisterhood -- It Would Be So Us -- The Little Vuitton -- An Excellent Haut-Brion -- His You're Welcome -- Grips -- Senlis -- Peacock Eggs -- Parlor Games -- The Hotel le Marais -- Yah-el -- An Ugly Look -- To Whom It May Concern -- A Girl's Adventures -- While the Getting Is Good -- Modern Art -- Springtime in Paris -- The Rest of Their Lives Will Be Like This -- Saints and Virgins -- Precious Cargo -- Springtime in Berlin -- The Gare de l'Est -- Tea -- St. Petersburg -- Loose Ends -- Lullabies -- Exclusively Our Red -- Yale, He Says -- April 23, 1919: Nine a.m. at the Chateau -- Nine a.m. Elsewhere -- A Flashback: The First Day of the War (or, The Hungry Assassin) -- A French Sailor Suit -- The Assassination of Kerim Bey -- Another Last Day of the War -- Going West -- Magic -- Dinner That Night

"This debut novel is the love story of a Jewish girl and an Armenian-American soldier who together enter a maze of underground politics at the conclusion of the First World War." "Yael Weiss, an eighteen-year-old from St. Louis, reinvents herself as the twenty-five-year-old Methodist Yale White when she travels to Paris with the YMCA to work in a soldiers' canteen. Dub Hagopian - the doughboy she has a carried