Ayelet Tsabari’s debut novel, Songs for the Brokenhearted, is a richly layered tale of family, love and identity. It’s also a long, meaty read, but one that should be savored to fully appreciate the prose and multiple narratives. Braiding together two storylines, one that starts in 1950 with the rescue of Yemenite Jews as part of Operation Magic Carpet and a second set in the mid-1990s in a tumultuous Israel debating the Oslo Accords, Tsabari creates a cohesive plot with clear storytelling and compelling characters. Tsabari has crafted a beautiful, complex story about internalized racism, religious-secular tensions and the connections that tie one to the past. She captures Israel at two different yet equally fraught eras, placing the overarching personal stories deftly in both. (Hadassah Magazine).

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