Shem - Ur Shem - Where I Am - Paperback

Binding: Paperback
Description: A piercing novel about the experience of a life abroad in a cultural setting not one's own: Reut is an Israeli translator in Paris with a French husband and their child. But she feels isolated and misunderstood resulting in a sense of estrangement that explodes at a festive dinner party with affluent intellectual friends. During the elaborate meal she sits on the edge of her chair alert and navigating a tangle of cultural codes with which she's never been fully at ease. Will she escape the alienation that accompanies her everywhere? Where I Am Dana Shem - Ur's virtuoso debut blends comedy and travelogue to examine a woman's attitudes about belonging to a man to a culture to a language. It concerns migration and wandering long journeys and changing landscapes. This intimate heartbreaking book portrays a profoundly human yearning to stop everything to lay down one's head and to feel - if only for a moment - at home.
Title: Where I Am
Author(s): Shem - Ur Shem
Publisher: New Vessel Press
Barcode: 9781954404144
Pages: 208 Pages
Publication Date: 6/6/2023
Category: Modern & Contemporary Fiction