Braiding together past and present, Every House Needs a Balcony tells the story of a young Jewish girl -- a child of Romanian immigrants -- who lives with her family in the poverty-stricken heart of 1950s Haifa, Israel. Eight-year-old Rina, her older...
This international bestseller tells the bittersweet story of one family, one home, and the surprising arc of one woman's life, from the poverty of her youth, to the intense love and painful losses of her adult years....