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Holy Lands is a subtle balance of originality and emotion. [There are] as many astonishing stories . . . as there are moments of emotion, doubt, and love. Between exchanges of acerbic humor, Amanda Sthers reveals, with rhythm and reserve, each and everyone's flaws. * Direct Soir * Drip[s] with a charming Jewish humor . . . A thoughtful and hilarious novel. * L'Avenir * A truly funny book: a series of hilarious correspondences undertaken by very colorful characters . . . Everyone in this small world exchanges letters and emails that are ironic, biting, conniving, and touching . . . This rhythmic and lucid novel is made to devour. * Roman * This touching novel makes you want to recapture the present with love. * Psychologies *

Swiftly moving . . . [Sthers] has a keen eye and a light touch . . . This is a book you can read in an afternoon, but it'll stick with you for much longer than that. Comic, moving, and occasionally profound, Sthers' novel is a delight. * Kirkus Reviews, starred review * Holy Lands is a subtle balance of originality and emotion. [There are] as many astonishing stories . . . as there are moments of emotion, doubt, and love. Between exchanges of acerbic humor, Amanda Sthers reveals, with rhythm and reserve, each and everyone's flaws. * Direct Soir * Drip[s] with a charming Jewish humor . . . A thoughtful and hilarious novel. * L'Avenir * A truly funny book: a series of hilarious correspondences undertaken by very colorful characters . . . Everyone in this small world exchanges letters and emails that are ironic, biting, conniving, and touching . . . This rhythmic and lucid novel is made to devour. * Roman * This touching novel makes you want to recapture the present with love. * Psychologies *

Swiftly moving . . . [Sthers] has a keen eye and a light touch . . . This is a book you can read in an afternoon, but it'll stick with you for much longer than that. Comic, moving, and occasionally profound, Sthers' novel is a delight. * Kirkus Reviews, starred review * French playwright and filmmaker Sthers swerves from harshly funny to surprisingly touching in her compact epistolary English-language debut . . . Caustic and gentle jokes leaven the serious concerns about Israel's militarized security, Jewish identity, and the dysfunction of Harry's family. This moving novel manages a delicate balance between humor and tenderness among a family incapable of interacting without rancor. * Publishers Weekly * Sthers is an expert at crafting dysfunctional families that remain touching and relatable. With Holy Lands, she's penned an irreverent and endearing reminder that blood is thicker than water. * Karen Tanabe, author of The Gilded Years * What do we do when we suddenly realize how short life is? With eloquent Jewish humor, ironic taunts, familial reprimands, and cries from the heart each of the letters that form this gripping novel reveals a new secret, or asks a new question--about erotic love, friendship, religion, connection. Along the way we see that change is possible and that truth can be a brilliant vehicle of reconciliation. This book reminds us how intense, even pungent, all our letters, postal or electronic, should be. * Grace Dane Mazur, author of The Garden Party *

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Amanda Sthers was born in Paris and now lives in Los Angeles. She is the author of ten novels, which have been translated into fifteen languages, and is a playwright, a screenwriter, and a director. Her debut English-language film, Madame, will be widely released in March 2018. It was sold in more than fifty countries. In 2011 she was made a Chevalier (Knight) in the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres (Order of Arts and Letters) by the French government for her significant and original contributions to the literary arts. This award is the highest honor bestowed upon artists by the French government.

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