Interview with Susanna Sonnenberg

  Interview with Susanna Sonnenberg The Southeast Review Online, Spring 2008 Michiko Kakutani of The New York Times said of Susanna Sonnenberg‘s memoir: “Writing in sharp, crystalline prose, Ms. Sonnenberg… plung(es) readers into a sort of perpetual present tense in which we are made to experience, almost firsthand, the inexplicable and perverse behavior of an …

Breathing room

Breathing room: review of Susanna Sonnenberg’s memoir Her Last Death The Jerusalem Post, May 23, 2008 Susanna Sonnenberg’s mother hovers between life and death after a car accident in Barbados. Sonnenberg decides not to sit vigil by her mother’s bedside. In a starkly honest voice she tells the reader, “I’m afraid my mother will die. …

The new Israelis

The new Israelis: the children in our midst The Jerusalem Post, May 16, 2008 From the street, nothing distinguishes this particular apartment building from the other equally dreary ones in South Tel Aviv. But as you approach the door of one of the ground-floor apartments you hear them – children’s voices. Yelling, crying, laughing. Snippets …