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The art of leaving : a memoir /

"This collection opens with the death of Ayelet Tsabari's father when she was a nine-year-old girl. His passing left her feeling rootless, devastated, and driven to question her complex identity as an Israeli of Yemeni descent in a country that suppressed and devalued her ancestors' t...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Tsabari, Ayelet, 1973- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Random House, [2019]
Edition:First edition.
Subjects:
Tsabari, Ayelet, > 1973-
Families > Biography.
Grief > Biography.
Identity (Philosophical concept) > Biography.
Jewish women authors > Canada > Biography.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY > Personal Memoirs.
Jewish women authors.
Canada.
Nonfiction.
Autobiographies.
Biography.
Table of Contents:
  • Home. In my dreams we hug like grown-ups do
  • A simple girl
  • You and what army
  • A sleepless beast
  • Leaving. My American dream
  • Missing in action
  • The marrying kind
  • Soldiers
  • Kerosene: a love story
  • Not for the faint-hearted
  • Return. Tough chick
  • Hornets
  • Yemeni soup and other recipes
  • If I forget you
  • Unravel the tangle
  • The art of staying.