Picador USA

Aron Kelinfeld is the ringleader among the boys in his Jerusalem neighborhood, but as his 12-year-old friends begin to mature, Aaron remains imprisoned in the body of a child for three long years. While Israel inches toward the Six-Day War, and his friends cross the boundary between childhood and...

Chapter One When Godwin gave me the beautiful manuscript books to write in, I told him that I feared I should never dare to use them. 'Write about yourself, begin with something you remember and continue from there,' he said, and strode out of the room in his riding boots, leaving the books on...

July 3 Oh, Benedict, It's been five days since your touch. Your touch, hell, your rib-crushing hug at the security checkpoint. I think I have a bruise, Dr. Heimlich, would you mind taking a look at my clavicle? Have I told you how easily I bruise? How easily I bruise: Once, when I was maybe...