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Call Number: Fiction / Hope, Jessamyn
On Shelf At: Downtown Library

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It's 1994 and Adam, a drug addict from New York City, arrives at a kibbutz in Israel with a medieval sapphire brooch. To make up for a past crime, he needs to get the priceless heirloom to a woman his grandfather loved when he was a Holocaust refugee on the kibbutz fifty years earlier. There Adam joins other troubled people trying to turn their lives around: Ulya, the ambitious and beautiful Soviet emigre ; Farid, the lovelorn Palestinian farmhand ; Claudette, the French Canadian Catholic with OCD ; Ofir, the Israeli teenager wounded in a bus bombing ; and Ziva, the old Zionist Socialist firebrand who founded the kibbutz. By the end of that summer, through their charged relationships with one another, they each get their last chance at redemption.

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Intricate submitted by sarai koster-mockeridge on July 24, 2015, 7:37pm There is a lot going on in this story. How the author is able to weave such different people and experiences together tells more about the commonalities between us then about their relationship to eachother in the book.

Engrossing submitted by Zekicmom on July 10, 2017, 11:33am I really enjoyed this book. Even when some of the characters weren't exactly likable, I still cared about what happened to them and their influence on each other. They each took such different journeys to their overlapping time on Kibbutz.