Please REGISTER HERE to join our upcoming Zoom discussion of On Her Own written by Lihi Lapid and translated from Hebrew by Sondra Silverston. This thrilling novel is a National Jewish Book Award Finalist for both the Book Club Award and Hebrew Fiction in Translation. Registration is required so that we can send you the Zoom link and keep in touch if needed.

Here is a book description from the publisher, HarperCollins:

Nina, a teenage runaway, wakes up in the unfamiliar stairwell of a Tel Aviv apartment in a torn mini-dress. As her memory starts to resurface—the abusive older man she’s running away from, the crime she witnessed—she knows one thing: she needs to find a place to hide.

When one of the building’s tenants, Carmela, a lonely old widow suffering from memory loss, mistakes Nina for her granddaughter she hasn’t seen in years, Nina jumps at the opportunity for a safe haven. Soon, the two strangers become each other’s lifeline as Nina settles into the apartment with sweet, reassuring Carmela.

Set between the eve of Passover and Israel’s Independence Day, On Her Own is a tense and immersive psychological read about two families looking for redemption and the transformative bonds between strangers.