"Where, and how and to whom do we really belong Skolkin's brilliant debut novel is a hypnotic meditation on the ever-changing boundaries of love and need. A coming of age story of the bond between a young American and her powerful mother, etched in a wartime Mideast as shifting and dangerous and mysterious as the Israeli desert."

--Caroline Leavitt, columnist, Reviewer,Boston Globe, PEOPLE MAGAZINE, author of GIRLS IN TROUBLE