Beth Van Ess, a middle-aged woman currently without a husband or children, reviews the past thirty years of her life--her marriage, her attempts to fulfill her family's conflicting needs, her divorce--and builds a new life for herself...
Two sisters, Tamara and Serena Danziger, their children, and their grandchildren live peacefully with other Jews and with Arabs in a Palestinian village until two World Wars and the establishment of the state of Israel create tension...