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The author of City of a Thousand Gates, winner of the Janet Heidinger Kafka Prize for fiction, returns with an intense love story between a twenty-seven-year-old woman and a nineteen-year-old Israeli soldier, set in contemporary Israel and unfolding during a fictionalized invasion of Gaza.

Allie, a thoughtful and intelligent academic searching for a sense of where she belongs in the world, falls deeply and unexpectedly in love with a young Israeli doing his military service. Their love affair is sensual, filled with pleasure, longing, fear, moments of deep connection, and failures of communication.

Everything changes when Eyal is deployed to fight in Gaza. What started as a love story becomes a story of radicalization. How is love shaped by ideology? What does Zionism cost Jews? What will Allie give up to belong in Israel? The culmination of these questions is disturbing as it is profound.