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The Best Place on Earth: Stories

by Ayelet Tsabari
Random. Mar. 2016. 272p. ISBN 9780812988932. $26; ebk. ISBN 9780812988932. SHORT STORIES
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The Sami Rohr Award encourages and promotes outstanding writing of Jewish interest by awarding a $100,000 prize to an emerging writer. Tsabari won in 2015 for this captivating collection that focuses on characters of Mizrachi background—Jews of Middle Eastern and North African descent. The Israeli novelist of Yemeni descent, who moved to Canada in 1998, uses her stories to explore growing up amid conflict and how it shapes identity and one's search for home.Read-Alikes Danit Brown's Ask for a Convertible: Stories, Nomi Eve's Henna House, Lucette Lagnado's The Man in the White Sharkskin Suit, and Shelly Oria's New York 1, Tel Aviv 0: Stories.
Reviewed by Rachel Kamin , Nov 15, 2016
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