PRAISE FOR THE PLACE WILL COMFORT YOU: STORIES
by Naama Goldstein
Grace Paley
What fine, funny stories.
Anthony Doerr
Naama Goldstein’s characters inch along tightropes stretched over middle grounds—between cultures, between menance and safety, obediance and defiance—and those symmetries are further charged by the gravity of a distant but relentless political context. Unnerving, arresting, and ultimately very relevant
Peter Ho Davies
In these slyly poignant stories of the restless and the rootless, Naama Goldstein forges an art of alienation.
Caroline Leavitt
Goldstein writes radiant stories about just what it means to embrace or struggle with your culture.
Alice Munro
Naama Goldstein’s stories are a real gift—strong, original, unpredictable, and captivating.
Publisher's Weekly
Goldstein mines the rich complexities of cultural dislocation in the idiom of
in between...She depicts a loaded situation with unexpected originality through her artfully off-kilter syntax and whimsical characters, both insightful and self-deluded. As generous as it is unsentimental, this resonant collection captivates and provokes.