BOOKS 2025 #הוצאת פטל

A surprising and powerful plot. Everything swirls together – the waves of immigration, austerity and accelerated development, the closeness and tension between veterans and refugees, Jews and Arabs, coastal people and mountain people, Mizrahi and Ashkenazim. And from the whirlwind, the great difficulties of the book's heroine are revealed, within her family and outside it.

Naomi, a new and unusual student, arrives at a high school on the edge of the desert, disrupting the order of the group of boys and girls. Through her eyes, the period of adolescence unfolds in the farthest periphery of Israel, between desert landscapes and big dreams. A love story.