Birthing a Book in a Time of War

By Jennifer Lang

Thirty-two days after Places We Left Behind: a memoir-in-miniature launched, everything that is my greatest fear of the country where I live, with which I’ve wrestled for decades, about which I write in my book, has come to fruition—only more, so much worse, beyond my imagination.

Places We Left Behind is the story of my falling fast in love with a Frenchman named Philippe during the First Intifada in Israel. Both 23, both Jewish, we had opposing outlooks on two fundame...