Between the Lines: Where I Am
Part of Between the Lines: Author Conversations from The Library of JTS
Dana Shem-Ur鈥榮 book is a piercing novel about life abroad in a cultural setting not one鈥檚 own: Reut is an Israeli translator living in Paris with a French husband and their child. She鈥檚 made sacrifices for her family but now feels a simmering discontent and estrangement that erupts at a festive dinner party with affluent, intellectual friends. During the sumptuous meal, she navigates a tangle of cultural codes with which she鈥檚 never been fully at ease. This is a novel about big life choices that examines a woman鈥檚 attitudes toward belonging to a man, to a culture, to a language. Where I Am is an intimate, witty book portraying a profoundly human yearning to stop everything, to lay down one鈥檚 head, and to feel鈥昳f only for a moment鈥昦t home.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Dana Shem-Ur lived in Paris for three years and obtained a master鈥檚 degree in philosophy from the 脡cole Normale Sup茅rieure. She is a Ph.D. candidate in history at Tel Aviv University who translates from French, Italian, and Chinese into Hebrew.
