Songs for the Brokenhearted : A Novel

✍ Scribed by Ayelet Tsabari

• Book ID: 115323292
• Publisher: Random House Publishing Group
• Year: 2024
• Tongue: en-US
• Weight: 726 KB
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN-13: 9780812989021

✦ Synopsis

A young Yemeni Israeli woman learns of her mother 's secret romance in a dramatic journey through lost family stories, revealing the unbreakable bond between a mother and a daughter--the debut novel of an award-winning literary voice.
"A gorgeous, gripping novel filled with unforgettable characters."--Elizabeth Graver, author of Kantika
1950. Thousands of Yemeni Jews have immigrated to the newly founded Israel in search of a better life. In an overcrowded immigrant camp in Rosh Ha'ayin, Yaqub, a shy young man, happens upon Saida, a beautiful girl singing by the river. In the midst of chaos and uncertainty, they fall in love. But they weren't supposed to; Saida is married and has a child, and a married woman has no place befriending another man.
1995. Thirty-something Zohara, Saida's daughter, has been living in New York City--a city that feels much less complicated than Israel, where she grew up wishing that...