I flew through these three stories filled with so much tension truth and heartbreak. The first story personifies the inter-generational views on Isreal through the loss of an older woman teaching Hebrew at an American university for forty years. Then we meet a woman forcing an extended visit on her reluctant and distant son and daughter in law to spend time with her grandson. And in the final story, we see how far a mother will go worried about her daughter's lack of friends.Publisher's description:
Three Israeli women, their lives altered by immigration to the United States, seek to overcome crises. Ilana is a veteran Hebrew instructor at a Midwestern college who has built her life around her career. When a young Hebrew literature professor joins the faculty, she finds his post-Zionist politics pose a threat to her life's work. Miriam, whose son left Israel to make his fortune in Silicon Valley, pays an unwanted visit to meet her new grandson and discovers cracks in the family's perfect facade. Efrat, another Israeli in California, is determined to help her daughter navigate the challenges of middle school, and crosses forbidden lines when she follows her into the minefield of social media. In these three stirring novellas -- comedies of manners with an ambitious blend of irony and sensitivity -- celebrated Israeli author Maya Arad probes the demise of idealism and the generation gap that her heroines must confront.