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בפקולטה לרפואה של הטכניון מתגלה גופה אחת מיותרת. כך נפתחת פרשיית הרצח שתהפוך את עולמה של איריס אברמוב, חוקרת משטרה בהליכי גירושים שנוהגת לאסוף מזכרות מזירות רצח. דרכה של איריס עומדת להצטלב בזו של עידן לוריא, נער בן טובים שבורח ממשפחתו ונקלע לקומונה שיש בה חוקים מעורפלים; שנים אחר כך ייכנס לתמונה גם נוח קֶני, פקיד בנק רמוס שמשנה את גורלו בשל רגש נקם, וגם בנו יותם, שיוצא לטיול אחרי צבא אך במקום להעפיל אל האוורסט הוא משוטט בעיר התחתית של חיפה ושומע את קולה של אימו המתה.

למיקי מילוא היו החיים "הכי רגילים בעולם": שני ילדים מוצלחים, בעל שווה שהיה איש צבא ועכשיו הוא איש עסקים, ועבודה נחמדה, עד היום שבו מגיעה שיחת הטלפון וקוטעת באבחה את השגרה המבורכת שלה.

״זהו יום הנישואים השנים־עשר שלנו. אנחנו צפים על מזרן בבריכה אורגנית כזאת — או כמו שהסביר לנו המארח שליווה אותנו רק שעתיים קודם לכן לסוויטה שלנו ב׳אגף הסחלב׳ — ׳בריכה שמנהלת דיאלוג עם הטבע.׳ והרגע רז הודה שהוא בגד בי.״

זה לא הבלגן היחיד ששרה, גיבורת ספרה החדש של ורד שנבל, צריכה להתמודד איתו. ישנו גם הבלגן שלה עם העבר שלה, והבלגן שההורים שלה עשו ועדיין עושים, והבלגן בבתים שאמא שלה והיא מסדרות, לפרנסתן. אבל הווידוי של רז, בעלה המתוק, הנאה, הרגיש, האבא המושלם של בתם המשותפת — הוא בלי ספק הבלגן הכי רציני.

שמונת הסיפורים שבקובץ מתרחשים בקיבוץ הדמיוני יקהת, ומשרטטים דיוקנאות מפליאים בעדינותם של נשים וגברים החולמים חלומות אינטימיים וחווים מכאובים פרטיים בצלו של אחד החלומות הקולקטיביים הגדולים בתולדות המאה העשרים. אב מבוגר שבתו הצעירה עוברת להתגורר עם חבר קיבוץ בן גילו; אישה הכותבת מכתב מצמרר לאישה שלמענה נטש אותה בעלה; ילד חוץ היוצא לבקר את אביו בבית חולים לתשושי נפש; וגנן מזדקן הנושא על כתפיו את כל אסונות העולם - כל אחד מן הסיפורים הפרטיים האלה הוא פנינה של אנושיות ספרותית ויחד הם נשזרים למחרוזת שהיא גם דיוקן של רעיון ושל תקופה.

Sara Schönflies, a young Jewish woman from a line of gifted tailors and seamstresses, finds her world shattered by the rise of the Nazi regime. When Sara and her sisters are transferred to the Auschwitz-Birkenau death camp, their talent becomes a lifeline. Their survival hinges on sewing beautiful dresses for the wives of SS officers and Nazi dignitaries. Amidst the horrors and suffering, Sara's determination, her sisters' unwavering courage, unyielding defiance, and the unexpected friendship with a member of the Sonderkommando become beacons of hope.

It’s 1963, two years since Barbara Feldman’s husband died. Raising two kids, she’s finally emerging from her cocoon of grief. Not yet a butterfly, but she’s anxious to spread her wings. Then one day her mother-in-law, Ruth, shows up on her doorstep with five suitcases, expecting a room of her own with a suitable mattress. Abrasive and stuck in her ways yet well meaning, Mother Ruth arrives without warning to help with the children. How can Barbara say no to a woman who is not only a widow herself but also a grieving mother?

Successful event planner Mira Erdman never expected to see Brush Hill Camp again. But these days, the old sleepaway camp in the Berkshires offers “adult” experiences for New York’s twentysomething Jewish singles. And Mira’s bubbie knows it’s the perfect place for her granddaughter to find love. Since losing her mom, Mira has basically given up on dating. But for Bubbie’s sake—and with best friend Josie at her side—she’s resigned to giving grown-up camp a try.

This powerful new novella is a darkly comic portrait of a Jewish family in today's Poland, struggling to express their love for one another in the face of a past that cannot and will not be forgotten. The grandfather is a doctor, a Holocaust survivor who has now vowed to live only for pleasure.

At an auto da fe in 16th century Portugal, Diego Lopes was chained to a stake and a pyre was lit. Then, according to both Christian and Jewish witnesses, he mysteriously disappeared in front of thousands of astonished spectators. The only point of contention was that the Christians believed he was so evil that he was dragged body and soul directly to hell, while the Jews believed he was so righteous that he was taken body and soul up to heaven.

In the wake of the 1967 Six Day War, Tamar Abadi's world collapses when her sister-in-law is killed in what appears to be a terror attack but what is really the result of a secret relationship with a Palestinian poet. Tamar's husband, Salim, is an Arab and a Jew. Torn between the two identities, and mourning his sister's death, he uproots the family and moves them to the US.

Just days after the close of World War II, Bess Myerson, the daughter of poor Russian Jewish immigrants living in the Bronx, is competing in the Miss America pageant. At stake: a $5,000 scholarship. The tension and excitement in Atlantic City's Warner Theatre are palpable, especially for traumatized Jews rooting for one of their own. So begins Bessie. Drawing on biographical and historical sources, Bessie reimagines the early life of Bess Myerson, who, in 1945 at age twenty-one, remarkably rises to become one of the most famous women in America.

One Wednesday evening, the governments of the world send out a mass text message announcing that the world will end in one month. In the thirty days leading up to the last day of the world, our protagonist, a young man in his late twenties, has watched the love of his life leave, has lost his job and friends and sense of meaning, and has moved back home to spend his final weeks with his survivalist father, Jewish studies/author mother, and Yiddish-speaking grandfather.

College student and certified nerd Arthur Rose has issues: he's estranged from his Jewish faith, he needs a recommendation for grad school, and getting back with his ex, Lynn, is going to take more than an apology and chocolate. He's trying to balance it all when he starts seeing shapes in the dark.

Against the simmering tensions of summer 1939, a group of evacuees flee Vienna for the sanctuary of Newtown House in Ireland. Haunted by their pasts and those they have left behind, Gisela Müller and Hans Schmitt struggle to settle into their new, rural Irish home. Tasked with being a companion to the precocious and spoiled Nola de Freyne, Gisela misses her previous scholarly life terribly.

When they realize the danger of remaining under the rule of the Nazi occupation, Dr. Leon Schmelzer, his wife Donya, and their baby daughter attempt to flee Romania under the cover of darkness. Joining a dozen other brave souls, they hastily board a small ship, leaving behind family, friends, and the only life they ever knew—for a slim chance at survival. But their path to freedom does not sail over smooth waters.

März 1945: Amerikanische Verbände haben Köln erreicht. Trotz der Durchhalteparolen aus Berlin ist der Widerstand gering, die Stadt wie ausgestorben. Kaum mehr 20.000 Menschen leben in den Trümmern. Doch die Amerikaner erobern nur einen Teil der zerstörten Metropole, denn der Rhein bildet wochenlang die Front. Unlängst wurde die Domstadt noch einmal schwer bombardiert. Ein abgeschossener Pilot stürzte dabei mit seinem Fallschirm mitten hinein ins Chaos – und wurde Opfer eines feigen Lynchmords.

Outcasts—one by choice, one by chance—Rachel and Ciaran meet on the docks of lower Manhattan in 1928. Drawn to each other in this lyrical story, they seemed doomed as eternal lovers to repeat a cycle of love and loss.

Dawoud is on the run from his murky past, aiming to discover where he belongs. He tries to assimilate into different groups along his journey through North Africa and Israel, changing his clothes, his religious affiliations, and even his name to fit in, but the safety and peace he seeks remain elusive. It seems prejudice is everywhere, holding him back, when all he really wants is to create a simple life he can call his own. A chameleon, Dawoud—or David, Adal, or Dawit, depending on where and when you meet him—is not lost in this whirl of identities. In fact, he is defined by it.

1942. Hannah Martel has narrowly escaped Nazi Germany after her fiancé was killed in a pogrom. When her ship bound for America is turned away at port, she has nowhere to go but to her cousin Lily, who lives with her family in Brussels. Fearful for her life, Hannah is desperate to get out of occupied Europe. But with no safe way to leave, she must return to the dangerous underground work she thought she had left behind.

It’s 1933, and Ivor Castle, Oxford-educated and Jewish, arrives in Palestine to take up a position as assistant to the defense counsel in the trial of the two men accused of murdering Haim Arlosoroff, a leader of the Jewish community in Palestine whose efforts to get Jews out of Hitler’s Germany and into Palestine may have been controversial enough to get him killed.