Fiercely funny and entirely original, this debut collection of stories takes readers from the United States to Israel and back again to examine the mystifying reaches of our own minds and hearts.
The characters of
The Worlds We Think We Knoware animated by forces at once passionate and perplexing. At a city zoo, a mismatched couple unite by releasing rare birds. After being mugged in the streets of New York, a professor must repeat the crime to recover his memoryand his lost love. In Tel Aviv, a sandstorm rages to expose old sorrows and fears as far away as Ohio. And from an unnamed Eastern European country, a woman haunts the husband who left her behind for a new life in America.
In Dalia Rosenfeld's prose, the foreign becomes familiar and the mundane magical.
The Worlds We Think We Knowis a dazzling debutclear-eyed, empathetic, and heartbreaking.
Dalia Rosenfeldis a graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop. Her work has appeared in publications including theAtlantic,AGNI,Michigan Quarterly Review,Mississippi Review, andColorado Review. She teaches creative writing at Bar Ilan University and lives with her three children in Tel Aviv.
Praise forThe Worlds We Think We Know The Worlds We Think We Knowdepicts the worlds of cultural and ethnic Jews, worlds she reveals are sometimes at odds, sometimes overlapping, and always tinged with the darkness of a people long persecuted yet cut with the humor it takes to survive. . . . Through her poignant prose and spare, effective dialogue, Rosenfeld conveys a multi-dimensional portrait of the worlds of Jewishness.
Los Angeles Review A wholly unique voice . . . Equal parts funny and sorrowful, strange and grounded, human and sometimes magical.
Bustle Funny and poignant . . .?The lush melancholy of this collection is bolstered by the characters deep intelligence and witlc”
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