Join Ayelet Tsabari and Iddo Gefen with Jew­ish Book Coun­cil in a con­ver­sa­tion about Tsabar­i’s lat­est book, Songs for the Bro­ken­heart­ed and Gefen’s lat­est book, Mrs. Lilienblum’s Cloud Fac­to­ry. The con­ver­sa­tion will dis­cuss their inspi­ra­tions for their books, what they’ve learned about sto­ry­telling, and so much more!

Ayelet Tsabari is the author of Songs for the Bro­ken­heart­ed, win­ner of a Nation­al Jew­ish Book Award for Fic­tion and the Asso­ci­a­tion of Jew­ish Libraries Fic­tion Award. Her mem­oir, The Art of Leav­ing, was a final­ist for the Writer’s Trust Hilary West­on Prize, win­ner of the Cana­di­an Jew­ish Lit­er­ary Award for mem­oir, and an Apple Books and Kirkus Review Best Book of 2019. Her first book, The Best Place on Earth, won the Sami Rohr Prize for Jew­ish Lit­er­a­ture and was a New York Times Book Review Edi­tors’ Choice.

Iddo Gefen is an author and a Ph.D. can­di­date in cog­ni­tive neu­ro­science at Colum­bia Uni­ver­si­ty, based in New York City. His research exam­ines how nar­ra­tive under­stand­ing shapes mem­o­ry and deci­sion-mak­ing. He is the author of Jerusalem Beach, which won the 2023 Sami Rohr Prize for Jew­ish Lit­er­a­ture, and the nov­el Mrs. Lilienblum’s Cloud Fac­to­ry. A sto­ry from Jerusalem Beach is being adapt­ed into a film by Ryan Gosling’s pro­duc­tion com­pa­ny