<p><strong style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 1); color: rgba(83, 90, 98, 1)">These raw, interlocking short stories</strong><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 1); color: rgba(83, 90, 98, 1)">-set in Israel, Portland, and Thailand-explore the complex reality of modern Israel, its recent history, and what it represents to its citizens and foreign-born Jews. With a range of different narrators-three Israel Defense Force soldiers, a hawkish retiree, a synagogue executive director, and a young video game fan-each story viscerally speaks to the contrasts between Israel's founding mythology and current political realities. Each narrator's perspective is different, but collectively the voices engage with a growing concern in US Jewish communal life: how to countenance an Israel that increasingly doesn't reflect the values of American Jews.</span></p>