Moriel Rothman-Zecher is an American-Israeli writer, poet, and novelist. Born in Jerusalem, he graduated from Middlebury College with a degree in Arabic and political science. A recipient of a 2017 MacDowell Colony Fellowship for Literature, his work has been published in The New York Times, Haaretz, The Paris Review’s Daily, Them Common Magazine, and elsewhere.
A very young Israeli soldier, whose best friends are Palestinian twins, is driven to the breaking point by conflicting loyalties. Over a series of long bus trips, nights on the beach, and marijuana-fueled conversations, Jonathan begins to see the occupation through the eyes of his friends and grasps that their family history is no less tragic than his own. A passionate, poetic coming-of-age story set in a mine field, brilliantly captures the intensity of feelings on both sides of the conflict.
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