Havurat Nashim Book Club

Each month, our sisterhood group meets to discuss a new book, with choices ranging from drama to historical fiction to comedy and everything in between. Our book club is less than 10 years old but has become a treasured activity for our sisterhood members! 

Our current book for March 2023:  

Waking Lions by Ayelet Goshen

Ayelet is an Israeli author who challenges her readers with difficult scenarios.  What would you chose to do in if given a difficult life situation? Are you sure you would always make the most ethical choice? 

 

"Waking Lions offers a commentary on privilege and otherness, challenging readers to confront their own blind spots and preconceptions....Trained as a clinical psychologist, Gundar-Goshen examines her characters with the same formidable gaze. Nobody emerges unscathed....Gundar-Goshen is adept at instilling emotional depth into a thriller plot, delivering the required twists and turns along with an incisive portrayal of her characters' guilt, shame and desire, fluidly shifting between their perspectives....Readers will be rewarded by [Waking Lions'] exhilarating, cinematic finale. Skillfully translated by Sondra Silverston, Waking Lions is a sophisticated and darkly ambitious novel, revealing an aspect of Israeli life rarely seen in its literature."―Ayelet Tsabari, New York Times Book Review

 

Books we have read and explored together over the last few years include: