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A captivating first novel of family, sex, love, and death from an "extraordinary" writer of "remarkable emotional power" (Maureen Howard, Los Angeles Times Book Review) For Shira Klein, Yonatan Luria, and his daughter, Dana, it is winter-winter at work, winter among friends, winter at home, and winter of the heart. Yonatan is a marginal writer, a fifty-year-old widower left to raise his child alone. When he meets Shira, a bestselling author paralyzed by stage fright, the thaw begins as man, woman, and girl enter a halting romance, alternately tender and belligerent, generous and withdrawn. To the accompaniment of a full chorus of voices-of friends, neighbors, ex-lovers, parents-speaking from the past as well as the present, this family in the making gropes its way toward the comfort of love while navigating through ordinary pains: a dying father, angry children, wounding moments, and a distressing difference in the writers' levels of success which they wish would vanish even as it grows. An ensemble story marked by Yael Hedaya's exquisite sensitivity, Accidents follows its cast through fragility, vulnerability, and joy, accruing the small events of unremarkable days to produce a grand vision of the shared life. Rarely has the fictional world of family been plumbed with such knowingness, humor, and love.
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Teena D Flook
reviewed Accidents on December 18, 2009
Accidents
It's possible and indeed probable that my issues with this novel were spurned more by a lousy translation than its actual flaws, but I have to work with what I have so here goes.
My husband asked me what the book I was in the middle of was about. I said, a widower who is raising a ten year old daughter and meets a love interest. And that was at page 170. Apparently Hedaya's style is to tell ALL and I do mean all. What's more, she does it like this:
Yonatan asked Shira if she wanted eggs. Shira said no, she didn't, though she thought she might be hungry. He told her he'd make them anyway. She was glad. Yonatan asked if she wanted cheese with her eggs, or scallions. Shira said that when she was little her mother would use red onion. YOnatan said that ...
etc etc etc. JUST EAT THE FREAKING EGGS AND MOVE ON.
What was at times a thoughtful and insightful read was more often a reality show that moved painstakingly through the chapters. Hedaya's attempts at insight that fell short were her various oxymorons - it gave him a feeling of hope and despair. It filled her with excitement and dread. She was touched and disappointed by this. MAKE UP YOUR MIND.
Anyway very little actually happens in this book, and the characters are either boring or unlikable. Also, while it is set in Israel and everyone has super Israeli names, there was no sense of place at all. Maybe Tel Aviv is too much like Manhattan to spill otno the pages with any of Israel's color, but this was a big let down for me. As was the book.
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