An Israeli woman relo­cates to Amer­i­ca on assign­ment from her tech com­pa­ny. In an attempt to leave her past behind and adapt entire­ly to the new cul­ture in which she finds her­self, she joins her col­leagues on a deer hunt, dis­cov­er­ing a sur­pris­ing acu­men for the sport. She fires again and again, refin­ing her skills with every shot. As she embarks on an affair with her hunt­ing guide and col­league, David, she sinks deep­er into hunt­ing sea­son, vac­il­lat­ing between preda­tor and prey as the bound­aries between man, woman, work, and nature begin to col­lapse. Hunt­ing with David becomes the one sta­ble aspect of her life until one day every­thing changes.

With a poet­’s eye and a hunter’s aim, Tehi­la Hakim­i’s beguil­ing debut nov­el is a taut, twisty sto­ry about the every­day vio­lence that haunts coun­tries, and one wom­an’s ten­u­ous grasp on reality.