For anyone who has ever loved deeply and been willing to take risks for the sake of love.
In Places We Left Behind, Jennifer puts her marriage under a microscope, examining commitment and compromise, faith and family while moving between prose and poetry, playing with language and form, daring the reader to read between the lines..
For the next 20 years, they root and uproot their growing family, each longing for a singular place to call home.
Despite their opposing outlooks on two fundamental issues-country and religion-they are determined to make it work.
Both 23, both Jewish, they lead very different lives: she\'s a secular tourist, he\'s an observant immigrant.
Rachel Barenbaum author of Atomic Anna When American-born Jennifer falls in love with French-born Philippe during the First Intifada in Israel, she understands their relationship isn\'t perfect.
For anyone who has ever loved deeply and been willing to take risks for the sake of love
