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REVIEW: ‘Late Blossoms’

JL;DR SUMMARY In "Late Blossoms" by Merav Fima, a collection of ten linked short stories intricately explores Jerusalem through imagined interactions between pivotal female figures in Israel's emerging cultural scene. A way out west there was a fella, fella I want to tell you about, fella by the name of Jeff Lebowski. At least, that was the handle his lovin' parents gave him, but he never had much use for it himself. This Lebowski, he called himself the Dude. Now, Dude, that's a name no one would self-apply where I come from. But then, there was a lot about the Dude that didn't make a whole lot of sense to me. And a lot about where he lived, likewise. But then again, maybe that's why I found the place s'durned innarestin'.

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IdentityJerusalemShort StoriesZelda Schneurson MishkovskyRachel BluwsteinCultural SceneAnna TichoLiterary WomenEmerging Israeli ArtGender And Art

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Jerusalem, Israel
"Her debut, a collection of 10 linked short stories, is set in a beautifully realized, lyrical Jerusalem."
Judean Hills, Jerusalem, Israel
"The title story follows Anna Ticho as she struggles to draw artistic inspiration from the stark Judean Hills while hosting salons for the citys cultural and social elite inside her home, where conversations about art and life unfold over slices of her homemade Sachertorte."
Machaneh Yehudah, Jerusalem, Israel
"Fimas prose plays with the color, textures, scents and sounds of Jerusalem, from ripe fruit and vegetables in the Machaneh Yehudah market to the soft fuchsia petals of bougainvillea, the earthy scent of drying oil paint to the German-inflected Hebrew some of the women spoke."
Australia
"Just a few pages into Late Blossoms, it is clear the same could be said about Australian writer, translator and literary scholar Merav Fima."

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