Good Jewish Girl

Liz Shulman isn’t the first author to narrate her breakup with Israel. But she does so with humor, decency and painful honesty-a spirit that will move readers of all ideological stripes.

—Peter Beinart, author of Being Jewish After the Destruction of Gaza

Refreshingly raw and captivating in its storytelling, Liz Shulman’s intimate self-portrait offers a powerful account of identity made through relationships-not just with people, but with a place (Jerusalem) and an idea (Zionism). Unafraid to be authentic in her erotic entanglements and honest in her journey, Shulman’s account humanizes the complexity of identity politics as she traverses the contentious terrain of one of the world’s most enduring conflicts. In a voice that is accessible, inviting, and unassumingly wise, Shulman’s collection of essays brilliantly invites empathy, frustration, despair-and still somehow a sense of hope in its radical honesty.

—Phillip L. Hammack, author of Narrative and the Politics of Identity: The Cultural Psychology of Israeli and Palestinian Youth and Professor of Psychology, University of California, Santa Cruz