\u003cdiv\u003eWhen oral historian Ellen Margolis and her girlfriend decide to get married, Ellen realizes that she can\u0026#8217;t go through with a wedding until she tells her grandmother. There\u0026#8217;s only one problem: her grandmother is dead. As the two young women beat their own early path toward marriage equality, Ellen\u0026#8217;s longing to plumb that voluminous silence draws her into a clandestine entanglement with a wily Holocaust survivor\u0026#151;a woman with more to hide than tell\u0026#151;and a secret search for buried history. If there is to be a wedding Ellen must decide: How much do you need to share to be true to the one you love? Set in ebullient, 1990s Dot-com era San Francisco, \u003cI\u003ePaper is White\u003c/I\u003e is a novel about the gravitational pull of the past and the words we must find to make ourselves whole.\u003c/div\u003e