"Serves up heaping portions of yearning, passion, alienation, and
regret, and establishes Dana Shem-Ur as one of the rising stars of the
new Israeli literature."--Joshua Cohen, Pulitzer Prize-winning author
of The Netanyahus
A piercing novel about life abroad in a cultural setting not one's own:
Reut is an Israeli translator living in Paris with a French husband and
their child. She's made sacrifices for her family but now feels a
simmering discontent and estrangement that erupts at a festive dinner
party with affluent, intellectual friends. During the sumptuous meal,
she navigates a tangle of cultural codes with which she's never been
fully at ease. This is a novel about big life choices that examines a
woman's attitudes toward belonging to a man, to a culture, to a
language. Where I Am is an intimate, witty book portraying a
profoundly human yearning to stop everything, to lay down one's head,
and to feel--if only for a moment--at home.***
