Some Day

Desire and tragedy upset the lives of an Israeli family in this "thrilling, fresh, and surprising" debut novel from the award-winning filmmaker (ForeWord Review). On the shores of Israel''s Sea of Galilee lies the city of Tiberias. In the years between the Six Day and Yom Kippur Wars, it is a place bursting with desire and longing for love. As young Shlomi develops a remarkable culinary talent, he also falls for Ella, the strange neighbor and deeply troubled new neighbor. Meanwhile, Shlomi''s little brother Hilik obsessively collects words in a notebook. In the wild, selfish but magical grown-up world that swirls around them, a mother with a poet''s soul mourns the deaths of literary giants while her handsome husband cheats on her both at home and abroad. In filmmaker Shemi Zarhin''s dazzling debut novel, hypnotic writing renders a painfully delicious vision of individual lives behind Israel''s larger national story. "Ardent, salty, whimsical, steamy, absurd . . . A wallop to the reader." ―Ploughshares "Masterful . . . haunting . . . sublime . . . Zarhin''s characters are so real they fairly jump off the page." ―The Jerusalem Post