The novel is called Site Report, and it's available on Amazon and a few other places. I began writing it 30 years ago.
I realized when I was finished with it that it was unpublishable: too long and on an unpalatable subject (Israel), so I forgot about it. Then, maybe 10 years ago, I rewrote it, cutting out about half of it and sharpening the language, but I didn't have the heart to go through the long process of trying to get it published. I have too much dreary experience with that process with my clients.
Then I heard about Create Space, the self-publishing possibility sponsored by Amazon. You can design and upload your book and have it available print on demand and as an ebook, for free. So I decided to try it out.
Obviously, part of the self-publishing process is rereading your book, which is something I didn't want to do in the worst way, so I waited another couple of years. But finally, I went through with it.
Astonishingly, I liked the book. I didn't remember a lot of it, and I was surprised I had done such a good job with it.
It's the story of an American woman who spend a sabbatical year in Israel in 1980. I imagined her with old-line kibbutznik relatives, orthodox relatives in Bnei Brak, and a Russian immigrant cousin. She encounters all those people, has a love affair with a Moroccan architect, and can't decide whether to marry him and stay in Israel or return to the Boston area.
So look it up on Amazon. There is also going to be a Kindle edition, but they haven't finished processing it.
I realized when I was finished with it that it was unpublishable: too long and on an unpalatable subject (Israel), so I forgot about it. Then, maybe 10 years ago, I rewrote it, cutting out about half of it and sharpening the language, but I didn't have the heart to go through the long process of trying to get it published. I have too much dreary experience with that process with my clients.
Then I heard about Create Space, the self-publishing possibility sponsored by Amazon. You can design and upload your book and have it available print on demand and as an ebook, for free. So I decided to try it out.
Obviously, part of the self-publishing process is rereading your book, which is something I didn't want to do in the worst way, so I waited another couple of years. But finally, I went through with it.
Astonishingly, I liked the book. I didn't remember a lot of it, and I was surprised I had done such a good job with it.
It's the story of an American woman who spend a sabbatical year in Israel in 1980. I imagined her with old-line kibbutznik relatives, orthodox relatives in Bnei Brak, and a Russian immigrant cousin. She encounters all those people, has a love affair with a Moroccan architect, and can't decide whether to marry him and stay in Israel or return to the Boston area.
So look it up on Amazon. There is also going to be a Kindle edition, but they haven't finished processing it.
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