A first novel written by PEN Discovery Award Winner Risa Miller,Welcome to Heavenly Heightsdescribes a group of American Jews who have left the United States, not just to move to Israel, but to live in a settlement on the West Bank. Miller conjures a culture and a movement--part religion, part pipe dream--viewed through the pinhole of one ragged apartment building's door: its families, their dinners, their weddings, their marriages, their sorrows. While bombs can be heard at the edges of these pages, it is inside the settlement, Heavenly Heights where Miller's delicate, understated prose limns the lives of these tender souls.
Risa Millerwon a PEN Discovery Award for
Welcome to Heavenly Heights. She grew up in Baltimore, spent several years in Israel, and now lives in Brookline, Massachusetts, with her family.
Welcome to Heavenly Heightsis her first novel.
???Thoughtful, lovely language with the lightest touch . . . poetic, deeply affecting. An allusive, graceful novel.??? ???Neil Gordon, The New York Times Book Review
???Remarkable prose . . . memorable portraits of people in sync with both the country they've left behind and the political reality of their new home.??? ???The Washington Post Book World
???This novel pulses with acute observation--and with implications of a broader tragedy. In honoring the particularities of human life in Heavenly Heights, this fine writer honors life everywhere.??? ???James Carroll
???Graceful and engaging . . . Miller explores the many meanings of home, rootedness, and community.??? ???The Jewish Week
???Miller is able to conjure a culture and a movement--part religion, part pipe dream.??? ???Elinor Lipman
???A necessary and important book. Miller has chosen to present the complex human reality behind the screaming headlines. We are grateful she did.??? ???Naomi Regan
???For Orthodox Jews, Israel is not merely a country, l³i
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