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Hystera
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Leora Skolkin Smith
Bonna Whitten-Stovall
, October 30, 2011
This is a harrowing story of mental illness, poignant, unforgettable.
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The Fragile Mistress
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Leora Skolkin-Smith
Bonna Whitten-Stovall
, February 13, 2011
This is a superb and unusual novel set in Palestine/Israel during th Cold War. Grace Paley was the editor and originl publisher bu it has since been reissued by Hamilton Stone Editions. Currently in preproduction for a feature film with Triboro Pictures.
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Edges O Israel O Palestine
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Leora Skolkin Smith
Bonna Whitten-Stovall
, June 27, 2006
[a]Leora Skolkin-Smith'[/a]s "Edges" shouts metaphorically. When her father suicides, fourteen-year old Liana leaves her protected (if torturous) N.Y. suburb with her mother...and sails right into our world. An edgy world of tense borders, barbed wire. A world where soldiers and children are endangered species. In the mother;s old home in [kw][kw]Jerusalem[/kw][/kw] the family lingers around the traditional Friday evening meal. Liana watches this marooned island of love and civility, each one damaged in their own way--an uncle with a stump where there had been a leg, the mother giggly with memories of runnng bullets in her bras and and panties when she was fourteen. "[t]Edges"[/t] has been called a coming-of-age novel. But I consider it not just as the struggle of one fourteen year old's girl for identity but the artist's stuggle to comes to grips with gender and violence. Skolkin-Smith offers us something human and whole: fourteen year old Liana leaving the dense-with-war Jeurusalem to make of its dangerous borders a glade, the forest primeval, the Mediterranean-flicked hillside of her own "personal". She soon learns that she is her own country
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