בת המקום

Two pieces share the book. The first, a short novel, is set in small-town Florida, where Smokey, a Christian woman with an intellectual disability, looks after Rachel Solomon, the old Jewish lady who took her in. The second, the novella Sifra, returns to Israel in 1976: Leah, a teenager from Bat Yam with a brutal father who survived the camps and a mother who is never really there, attends an exclusive school in the north of Tel Aviv. The two heroines live an ocean apart and the works are written very differently, one compact and quiet, the other a patchwork of mystery, confession and growing-up story, yet both turn on belonging, being an outsider, love, family, freedom and the need to make art.

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About the book

Form

Short stories

Length

285 pages in the original

Genres

Coming of age, Family (assigned by AI)

Set in

United States, Israel

First published

2014 by Kinneret Zmora-Bitan

Author's age

52 when first published

ISBN

9789655527681 (original)