Edges: O Israel, O Palestine
by Leora Skolkin-Smith
After selling out of two successive print runs, Leora Skolkin-Smith's intoxicating novel about a young girl's personal and political discovery in 1960's Israel and Palestine is being re-released in a new edition by Glad Day Books. This new incarnation will include the author's afterword and dedication to her mentor Publisher and Editor of Glad Day Books with Robert Nichols, Grace Paley.
ABOUT THE BOOK:
"Edges" is set in a pre-1967 Israel, during the Cold War. Characters are drawn from Israel's long-forgotten past, members of the 1940's Haganah and Jewish underground who find themselves displaced amidst the chaotic and complex tensions of an Israel just beginning to modernize and expand.
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This was a really interesting poetic book. I saw it more as literature than a political book, but it had depth and I felt close to the main character. I think the author tried to write about a part of the world that is always politicized and that was the point—how we only see people from these countries as symbols and not as flesh and blood. Skolkin-Smith masterfully shows us the flesh and the blood.
