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Ayelet Tsabari, "Songs for the Brokenhearted: A Novel" (Random House, 2024)
Zohara flies from New York to Israel for her mother’s funeral. She’d already been through a tough year; a divorce from her American husband and trouble getting started on her doctoral dissertation at NYU. As she clears out the house where she grew up, Zohara finds tapes of her mother singing Yemenite songs in Arabic, and evidence of a secret romance. During her first thirty days of mourning, Zohara has conversations with her mother’s longtime friends, joins her mother’s Yemenite women’s choir, and rekindles old friendships.Songs for the Brokenhearted (Random House, 2024) is a beautiful…
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