Where I Am

By Dana Shem-Ur

Book Overview

"Serves up heaping portions of yearning, passion, alienation, and regret, and establishes Dana Shem-Ur as one of the rising stars of the new Israeli literature."--Joshua Cohen, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The NetanyahusA piercing novel about life abroad in a cultural setting not one's own: Reut is an Israeli translator living in Paris with a French husband and their child. She's made sacrifices for her family but now feels a simmering discontent and estrangement that erupts at a festive dinner party with affluent, intellectual friends. During the sumptuous meal, she navigates a tangle of cultural codes with which she's never been fully at ease. This is a novel about big life choices that examines a woman's attitudes toward belonging to a man, to a culture, to a language. Where I Am is an intimate, witty book portraying a profoundly human yearning to stop everything, to lay down one's head, and to feel--if only for a moment--at home.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 195440414X
• ISBN13: 9781954404144
• Release Date: June 2023
• Publisher: New Vessel Press
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 0.44 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.2" x 7.9"