Thursday, September 18 at Noon on Zoom
Ayelet Tsabari: Songs for the Brokenhearted: A Novel
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Winner of the National Jewish Book Award’s JJ Greenberg Memorial Award and Association of Jewish Libraries Fiction Award
Don’t miss this talk and do read this gorgeous novel – a story beautifully told and filled with characters and historical setting (the mass migration of Yemeni Jews to Israel in 1950) that will open your heart and mind.
A young Yemeni Israeli woman learns of her mother’s secret romance in a dramatic journey through lost family stories, revealing the unbreakable bond between a mother and a daughter—the debut novel of an award-winning literary voice.
“Ayelet Tsabari has written a gorgeous, gripping novel that asks layered questions about history and politics, nation and borders, even as it pays rapt attention to the fabric of daily life. Where are we from? What has gone missing? Whose stories get told, and whose get erased? How do we love in a damaged world? Filled with unforgettable characters, each as flawed and fully human as the next, Songs for the Brokenhearted is a gift.”—Elizabeth Graver, author of Kantika
“In this heartfelt and lyrical debut novel . . . Tsabari artfully plays up the religious and secular contrasts between East and West, and her well-developed characters, dramatic plot twists, and rich descriptions of Tel Aviv will keep readers turning the pages. This is transportive.”—Publishers Weekly
Ayelet Tsabari’s memoir, The Art of Leaving, was a finalist for the Writer’s Trust Hilary Weston Prize, winner of the Canadian Jewish Literary Award for memoir, and an Apple Books and Kirkus Review Best Book of 2019. Her first book, The Best Place on Earth, won the Sami Rohr Prize for Jewish Literature and was a New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice.