Congratulations and Mazal Tov to Aviva Gat … it’s PUBLICATION DAY for WE WILL DANCE AGAIN!
From the very first pages, this story explodes from the pages, just as events did on that shocking day: 7 October, 2023.
Aviva Gat, an Israeli-American living in Israel has taken the trauma experienced by the entire Jewish world on that day and in the days and months that have followed, and poured it into the pages of this book, because when one is a writer, how else does one deal with collective trauma? One writes. In doing so, she has proven herself to be a Master storyteller. If only what lies within these pages were just that: stories.
Gat has taken some of the more prominent real-life personalities and cases that have emerged from 7 October to create her own characters and storylines: a mother and her 2 children, a student on an American varsity campus, a young girl and her boyfriend at a music festival, a politician, a former soldier and a woman living in Gaza.
She brilliantly weaves them together to create a riveting, devastating birdseye view of a country and its people caught up in a hostile, seemingly unending conflict after an unimaginably horrific, unprovoked attack. But she then masterfully and sensitively extends her creativity, displaying the extent of these hostilities that reach distant shores.
As we follow the lives of these everyday citizens, ripped apart in an instant, it is impossible not to draw the parallels between the fictional characters and the actual people upon whom they’re based. This book covers only the first 220 days of the war. It’s impossible to think we’re now on day 465, and we are STILL waiting for the release of 94 hostages – shockingly, at least 34 of these are no longer living!
So, as we await their return and the continuation of the stories of the people in Aviva’s book, I highly recommend this book – not an easy read, no, but an extremely important one.
The author went out of her way to ensure this book was published, understanding how very necessary it is. When no publisher would accept it, she self-published instead, and we owe her a debt of gratitude for doing so. It was a privilege to receive an advance copy to review.
Thank you, Aviva Gat!
Purchase Link: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0DKC5DY2Q
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