Ayelet Tsabari
Author
Language
English
Description
In this collection of deeply personal essays, twenty-six writers explore their connection with language, accents, and vocabularies, and contend with the ways these can be used, as both bridge and weapon. Some explore the way power and privilege affect language learning, especially the shame and exclusion often felt by non-native English speakers in a white, settler, colonial nation. Some confront the pain of losing a mother tongue or an ancestral...
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
A collection of eleven stories follows characters at the crossroads of geography and faith who are all trying to find someone to believe in as they struggle with love, violence, faith, and the challenges of balancing traditions with modern times.
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"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' traditions. In The art of leaving, Ayelet tells her story, from her early love of writing and words, to her rebellion during her mandatory service in the Israeli army....