Eden

From a lead writer of the original "In Treatment" TV series comes "an accomplished, acutely observed novel" ("Publishers Weekly").

Eden is not the paradise it appears to be. It is a stifling rural Israeli community in which upscale urban escapees Alona and Mark try to salvage their relationship under the resentful scrutiny of Roni, Mark's adolescent daughter, who feels empowered by her sexual adventures with older men. The neighbors, Dafna and Eli, are in crisis, too, their marriage rent by the torment of infertility. Set against a backdrop of Middle East fears, family entanglements, disappearing countryside, and disappointed expectations, Yael Hedaya's "Eden "brilliantly renders the strains of unrest in what, on the surface, seems an idyllic place.