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Eventually, she realizes that she must reconcile the memories of her father and the sadness of her past if she is ever going to come to terms with herself.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e With fierce, emotional prose, Ayelet Tsabari crafts a beautiful meditation about the lengths we will travel to try to escape our grief, the universal search to find a place where we belong, and the sense of home we eventually find within ourselves.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Praise for\u003c\/b\u003e \u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe Art of Leaving\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \"\u003ci\u003eThe Art of Leaving\u003c\/i\u003e is, in large part, about what is passed down to us, and how we react to whatever it is. . . . [It] is not self-help--we cannot become whatever we put our mind to--yet it suggests that we can begin to heal from what has broken us, if we only let ourselves. . . . 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From Israel to India to Canada, Tsabari's indelible characters grapple with love, violence, faith, the slipperiness of identity, and the challenges of balancing old traditions with modern times. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e These eleven spellbinding stories often focus on Israel's Mizrahi Jews, featuring mothers and children, soldiers and bohemians, lovers and best friends, all searching for their place in the world. In Tikkun, a man crosses paths with his free-spirited ex-girlfriend--now a married Orthodox Jew--and minutes later barely escapes tragedy. In Brit Milah, a mother travels from Israel to visit her daughter in Canada and is stunned by her grandson's upbringing. A young medic in the Israeli army bends the rules to potentially dangerous consequence in Casualties. After her mom passes away, a teenage girl comes to live with her aunt outside Tel Aviv and has her first experience with unrequited love in Say It Again, Say Something Else. 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