Your Sad Eyes and Unforgettable Mouth
From Edeet Ravel, internationally acclaimed author of the Tel Aviv Trilogy, comes a deeply personal and emotionally resonant novel about an unexpected friendship between two young women.Maya and Rosie meet one day at the local dry cleaner’s and their instant friendship quickly blossoms into an inseparable bond. Both are children of Holocaust survivors, but Maya refuses to become entangled in her mother’s past, while Rosie is drawn into her parents’ haunted world. Your Sad Eyes and Unforgettable Mouth is at once a novel about the strength and nature of friendship, the weight of the secrets we keep, and whether or not we are ever able to truly live beyond the past.
$12.99
December 2, 2008
Edeet Ravel was born on a Marxist kibbutz in Israel near the Lebanese border and lived there until she was seven, when her parents returned to their hometown of Montreal. Ravel returned to Israel at the age of eighteen to do a B.A. and M.A. in English literature. After five years of studies in Israel, she returned to Canada, where she completed an M.A. and Ph.D. in Jewish Studies at McGill and an M.A. in Creative Writing at Concordia University. She taught for two decades (Holocaust Studies, Hebrew Literature and Biblical Exegesis at McGill, Creative Writing at Concordia University, and English Literature at John Abbott College).
From a very young age Edeet knew she would become a writer. She wrote for…
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Your Sad Eyes and Unforgettable Mouth
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