With Rabbi Karen Glazer Perolman and Alan Breindel

A Remarkable Kindness
by Diana Bletter

Rela­tion­ships are the cor­ner­stone of this nov­el: rela­tion­ships between friends, between cou­ples, between fam­i­lies, between those who came to Israel long ago and those who have recent­ly arrived, between Jew­ish Israelis and Arab Israelis, between kids and adults, and even for those who appear too hurt to be in a rela­tion­ship with any­one but open up after all. These rela­tion­ships are not easy; the uni­ver­sal ten­sions of love, betray­al, and change arise in some­times typ­i­cal — and oth­er times sur­pris­ing — ways. But Bletter’s expert atten­tion to the details of emo­tion and the authen­tic­i­ty of lived expe­ri­ence car­ries the read­er through sad­ness and con­fu­sion to wisdom.