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The People of Forever Are Not Afraid
The People of Forever Are Not Afraid: A Novel | Shani Boianjiu
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A searing debut about three young women coming of age, experiencing the absurdities of life and love on the precipice of violence (Vogue) Yael, Avishag, and Lea grow up together in a tiny, dusty Israeli village, attending a high school made up of caravan classrooms, passing notes to each other to alleviate the universal boredom of teenage life. When they are conscripted into the army, their lives change in unpredictable ways, influencing the women they become and the friendship that they struggle to sustain. Yael trains marksmen and flirts with boys. Avishag stands guard, watching refugees throw themselves at barbed-wire fences. Lea, posted at a checkpoint, imagines the stories behind the familiar faces that pass by her day after day. They gossip about boys and whisper of an ever more violent world just beyond view. They drill, constantly, for a moment that may never come. They live inside that single, intense second just before danger erupts. In a relentlessly energetic and arresting voice marked by humor and fierce intelligence, Shani Boianjiu, winner of the National Book Foundations 5 Under 35, creates an unforgettably intense world, capturing that unique time in a young woman's life when a single moment can change everything.
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DebinHawaii
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The finished Garlic Soup with Croutons.🥣😋 Delish. The 15 cloves of garlic are present but mellowed & slightly sweet. Trying to start the tagged book for #FoodandLit #Israel rather than waiting until the last possible minute like last month.

Link to soup recipe is ⬇️

Prairiegirl_reading Jacques Pepin has never steered me wrong!! I adore him! I will definitely have to try this recipe. 😄 3y
TheBookHippie Yum!!! I‘m trying this recipe tomorrow ! 3y
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DebinHawaii
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Finally took the time to think about some of my #FoodandLit #Israel 🇮🇱 plans for April. I‘m going with the tagged book for my read after going through a list of novels I was interested in. My final choice was made because library had the ebook available.😉 Hopefully I‘ll like it.

My library also had the 2 cookbooks on the left in e-books & I own Jerusalem & Falastin so I‘ll be picking a few dishes to make, probably soup & salads of some sort.

Butterfinger Love it. 3y
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TheBookHippie
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Female Israeli Authors
#FOODANDLIT ISREAL

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chavalah
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Pickpick

Three Israeli girls from a small town are conscripted into the IDF, and Boianjiu follows them around with these interconnected short stories. Trigger warnings for all sorts of violence, though not graphically portrayed. Gives a disquieting look at the region, and this intense buildungsroman issue for most Israeli teens. Maybe a little too melodramatic at the end, but the direct narrative and unsentimental writing always stays real. #JewLit

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mrldg
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"We were girls. I know we were just girls. We did what we did in the army, and then it was over. If Lea was having a hard time talking or leaving her parents' backyard when we were twenty-one, it was not because of the past; I know that. I admit it; the problem was the future of the past. It existed outside our heads, too large."

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