The place will comfort you
Subtitle: stories
By: Naama Goldstein.
Publisher: Scribner
Published: 2004
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 211
Subjects: Jewish youth -- Fiction.; Jews -- Fiction.; United States -- Social life and customs -- Fiction.; Israel -- Social life and customs -- Fiction.
Genres: Fiction.
Description: "Against a backdrop that spans from the Galilean wilderness to midtown Manhattan, and from the 1970s to the present, the inhabitants of these stories struggle to feel at home in foreign and sometimes unwelcoming lands. In "A Pillar of a Cloud." a young American babysitting her Israeli cousins scandalizes the children when she invites an Arab roofer for dinner. "The Worker Rests Under the Hero Trees" features a twenty-something Israeli expatriate vying for romance with a childhood hero turned cranberry expert. "Anatevka Tender" stands on a fault line between ideologies as a mother who blames herself for her elder son's battle shock following the Lebanon War resettles her children in the suburban safety of an East Coast condo." "The stories of The Place Will Comfort You illustrate the cultural divide between American and Israeli Jews - and the difficulties of moving between these two vastly different worlds."--BOOK JACKET.
Table of contents: title: The conduct for consoling; title: The verse in the margins; title: Pickled sprouts; title: A pillar of a cloud; title: The Roberto touch; title: Anatevka tender; title: Barbary apes; title: The worker rests under the hero trees.