Authors: Edeet Ravel
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
F
OR THEIR HELP AND SUPPORT
in the writing and publication of the Tel Aviv trilogy, I am deeply indebted to Meir Amor, Yudit Avi-dor, Yardena Avi-dor, Miki Bitton, Alison Brackenbury, Alison Callahan, Stacey Cameron, Nada and Jihad Charif, Marwan Charif, Anne Collins, Pam Comeau, Richard Cooper, Jay Eidemiller, Rezeq Faraj, Rachel Goodman, Mary Harsany, Christopher Hazou, Eric Hamovitch, Michael Heyward, Malcolm Imrie, Matan Kaminer, Ruttie Kanner, Yitzhak Laor, Shimon Levy, Kfir Madjar, Mark Marshall, Michael MacKenzie, Rachella Mizrahi, Moshe, Adrienne Phillips, Beverley Slopen, Ken Sparling, Gila Svirsky, Yafa Wax, Claire Williamson, Margaret Wolfson, Miriam Zehavi, the Headline crew, the staff of the Metropolitan Hotel in Tel Aviv, and the many fellow activists who have given me the strength to maintain hope in the midst of tragedy. Filling my life with fun and love, my daughter, Larissa, continues to inspire and enchant me.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
E
DEET
R
AVEL
was born on an Israeli kibbutz and completed graduate studies in English at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. She now divides her time between Canada and Tel Aviv, where she is involved in peace work. She has been publishing stories and prose poems in English and Hebrew since age sixteen, and is the recipient of several writing awards, including the Hugh MacLennan Prize for Fiction, the Norma Epstein Award for her poetry and a Quebec Council for the Arts writing award. She holds a Ph.D. in Jewish Studies from McGill University and has taught creative writing, English literature, Holocaust studies, and biblical exegesis. She has one daughter. Edeet Ravel’s website is
www.edeet.com
.
VINTAGE CANADA EDITION, 2005
Copyright © 2004 Edeet Ravel
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Library and Archives Canada Cataloguing in Publication
Ravel, Edeet, 1955–
Look for me : a novel / Edeet Ravel.
eISBN: 978-0-307-37097-6
I. Title.
PS8585.A8715L66 2005 C813’.54 C2004-906978-0
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Table of Contents
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Chapter 6
Chapter 7
Chapter 8
Chapter 9
Chapter 10
Chapter 11