Thank you to NetGalley and Random House Publishing for gifting me with this remarkable memoir. In exchange for the ARC I offer my unbiased review.

Without a doubt I will be purchasing a physical copy of this stunning memoir so I can share it with friends and family. This collection of essays resonated with me on so many personal levels; daughter, mother, expat, Jew. I highlighted so many passages and shed too many tears. Although Ayelet Tsabari and I grew up oceans apart and lived very different lifestyles, I found such a strong familiarity within the pages of her story. Her vivid writing & brilliant sense for sights, sounds, smells, streets and neighborhoods kept me devouring the pages and acknowledging the truth of her experiences.

“Home is collecting stories, writing them down, and retelling them.”

“I remind myself we get to keep our memories and stories, take them with us wherever we go.”

Israel is not some foreign land to me, but a place I consider a second home. And I recognize the scars, thorns and messy implications that this carries and I applaud Ayelet Tsabari for presenting her homeland in an honest light.

“Our country is haunted by its dead, weighted down by loss and remembrance.”

I hope this book will resonate with other readers the way it did for me.

An honest open intimate memoir .An Israeli authors search for home after her father passed away when she was young.A search from New York to India a path that kept me turning the pages as the search went on, #netgalley#randomhouse