Homesick

Ami and Noah fall in love and decide to live together. He studies at Tel Aviv University; she studies at an art school in Jerusalem. So they choose a small apartment in a settlement located right between the two cities… This book is about how two young people begin living together and find their first shared home. How, into their home, into their lives, the lives of other people seep through a thin wall—while the husband and wife next door argue about religious upbringing for their children; and the neighbors opposite grieve the loss of their older son who died in Lebanon, no longer paying attention to the younger one who needs them so much. And down the street, behind their house, an elderly Palestinian worker keeps a close watch, remembering well how his family were once evicted from him… “Homesickness”—a beautiful, smart, moving story about a country, about love, about family, and about the meaning of a home for a person’s life.