The Anatomy of Exile starts in Israel just after the Six-Day War. Tamar Abadi’s sister-in-law is killed in what looks like a terror attack, and it turns out she’d been in a secret relationship with a Palestinian poet. Tamar’s husband, Salim, who is both an Arab and a Jew, moves the family to America to start over. Then a Palestinian family moves into the apartment upstairs, and Tamar’s daughter falls for their son.
It’s a family saga about exile, and about a mother trying to hold her family together when the fight they left behind moves in upstairs. It won the National Jewish Book Award for debut fiction, and there’s plenty in it to argue about.
Zeeva joins Atlanta Israel Coalition from Brooklyn to talk about the book and to take your questions. When she goes, we carry on talking about it. Stay on afterwards to schmooze. That part is never recorded.
You just purchase the book.
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