When Gloria Levi is 19, she travels to the new State of Israel-and her
life changes forever. What was supposed to be a summer trip between
university semesters turns into an enduring love affair with the man she
meets on-board the ship to Israel, and with the land of Israel itself.
Told through the eyes of a young woman and mother, her memoir recounts
the painful and poignant journey of a young family trying to integrate
into Israeli society in the 1950s and her realization that her path to
Israeli identity is both complex and multilayered.