{"product_id":"walls-of-glass","title":"Walls of Glass","description":"\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePeople often come to appreciate things only after they lose them.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eWhen seventeen-year-old Eileen is consigned to a life of wandering, she learns for the first time what a home is.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eThe law forbids her to go back home. Her mother, an anti-apartheid activist, is excommunicated. Eileen is left to fight for her very existence, while her mother's secrets pursue her, threatening to destroy everything she has succeeded in building.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eIn Soweto, Johannesburg's black suburb, a boy was arrested yesterday.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"He's only as old as you,\" Mom had said. Though I stood up straight, she was still a head taller than me. When she lowered her eyes to me, I saw surprise in them, as if she was saying, \"How did you grow so suddenly? And how have you remained a child?\"\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\"There are no children in Soweto,\" Mom once told me. \"Someone whose life hangs by a thread is not a child. There is no such creature.\"\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003eI remember feeling then that all of my fifteen years were stolen from that unknown boy who was thrown into jail, from all the children who are no longer children.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eForty years later and a continent away, Tovi Taylor is grappling with so many questions. Her father loses his public positions, doubts are raised about her mother-in-law's identity, and Rochel Efrat, her new friend, has plenty to say about everything. Are Tovi's idyllic home and family unraveling?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eWalls of Glass\u003c\/em\u003e. A compelling debut novel by Chaya Loberbaum\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Israel Bookshop Publications","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45279528321220,"sku":null,"price":34.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0586\/2886\/6244\/files\/CD112342-B31B-4E3E-B6ED-723324D3AA2C.gif?v=1761068743","url":"https:\/\/kingston-judaica.myshopify.com\/products\/walls-of-glass","provider":"Kingston Judaica","version":"1.0","type":"link"}