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Accidents - by Yael Hedaya (Paperback)

Accidents - by  Yael Hedaya (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><p>For Shira Klein, Yonatan Luria, and his daughter, Dana, it is winter--winter at work, winter among friends, winter at home, and winter of the heart. Yonatan is a marginal writer, a fifty-year-old widower left to raise his child alone. When he meets Shira, a bestselling author paralyzed by stage fright, the thaw begins as man, woman, and girl enter a halting relationship, alternately tender and belligerent, generous and withdrawn.</p><p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br><p>"When you read a book like Yael Hedaya's <i>Accidents</i>--a fine-grained, tragicomic, and always gripping portrait of adult love in the making--you wonder why so few such books are produced, and why they are not more fanfared. . . . This book is, in every sense, the real deal." --<i>The Atlantic</i> <p/>"[A] rewarding novel . . . utterly realistic and charming . . . Hedaya does an expert job of detailing these two self-conscious cynics' early courtship." --<i>The Forward</i> <p/>"Though the three novellas of Hedaya's <i>Housebroken</i> are funny and accomplished, they do not prepare one for the depth of her new novel. . . . Hedaya has an unerring sense of the fear involved in attempting intimacy, and her book contains one of the best descriptions of bad sex with the wrong person." --<i>Publishers Weekly (starred review)</i> <p/>"The author's detailed, slowly unfolding story captures the growth of affection and the conflicts inherent in new relationships. . . . Hedaya is able to bring an impressive multidimensionality to her characters." --<i>Booklist</i></p><br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br><p><b>Yael Hedaya </b>is a journalist and humor columnist for the Israeli daily <i>Yediot Aharonot</i><i>, </i> and the Tel Aviv weekly magazine <i>Halr.</i> She currently teaches creative writing at Tel Aviv University. <i>Accidents, </i> her first novel, was a bestseller in Israel. She lives in Tel Aviv, Israel.

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