Their lives intertwine despite cultural differences and past troubles. Avi grew up on a Kibbutz with a British father and Israeli mother who deserted him when he was quite young. Saleem grew up as an outsider on his own ancestral land. After serving in the IDF, Saleem died.

His young wife visits Avi in prison. Something she cannot do. She urges Avi to consider gaining a British passport to leave Israel to marry her and start a new life.


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First time novelist Emma McEvoy lived on a Kibbutz in Israel after university and before moving to Ireland with her family. As the story unfolds with dramatic flair, McEvoy effectively utilizes letters and flashbacks to highlight the misfortunes and bond between Avi and Saleem. Both men understand the reality of fighting over land. Fighting over religion and dogma. Both men know bigotry and hatred.

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Know deception, fate and tragedy. Exquisite prose haunts you and urges you think about the characters, the landscape, the country, its people and its troubled history. This entry was posted on January 14, , You can follow any responses to this entry through RSS 2. Both comments and pings are currently closed. Masters in journalism from Boston University. This is a stunning novel.

I needed to let it settle with me. He writes about his friend Saleem, an Israeli Arab he met. Their stories intertwine despite cultural differences and past troubles.

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Jan 10, Lorri rated it really liked it Shelves: How does one cope when a mother picks up, without warning and abandons the family, setting off for another country to live with a man other than your father? How does a child of four handle the death of his mother, from childbirth, within the environment of conflicts in Israel? The Inbetween People, by Emma McEvoy, is a novel that quite brilliantly depicts two individuals who become friends.

Ari Goldberg is Jewish. Saleem is an Israeli Arab. The two meet and through the years we read about their How does one cope when a mother picks up, without warning and abandons the family, setting off for another country to live with a man other than your father? The two meet and through the years we read about their struggles to maintain their lives within the constant struggles that are ongoing between the Jews and the Arabs. The majority of the book deals with the issues of the loss of their mothers.

He tries to extinguish his feelings and his thoughts on her, but they resurface to haunt him. The same is true of Saleem, and how the loss of his mother affected him and the rest of his family. Ari begins to write from a prison cell, and he writes of the loss of his mother. Saleem joins the Israeli army, as an Arab, hoping to help the conflicts occurring. I thought The Inbetween People had a lot to offer in regards to family dynamics, especially how loss defines a person. The characters tried to bury their losses, tried to hide their memories from themselves, to no avail.


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    • It also is an excellent story regarding conflicts between Jews and Arabs, and the forced societal pressures thrust upon them. Can we bury the past? When familial, emotional trauma constantly fills us, mentally, physically and emotionally?

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    We can become like people in limbo, stuck in time in between the past and the present. The connections of time become intertwined. The story is a metaphor for love, loss and redemption, within a framework of an ongoing social situation in Israel. I finished it in a few hours, as it was a slim volume. It did have a strong message, within the short framework. Emma McEvoy encompassed those issues well.

    Dec 19, Brenda Ayala rated it it was ok Shelves: This just wasn't my kind of book. I'm already not a fan of books that jump around to different sections of the plot. And the fact that the dialogue was just meshed into the paragraph made it unappetizing to me. If I so much as glanced up from the book for a second then looked back, I'd lose my place and have to reread a bunch of run-on sentences to figure out where I was again. There were a lot of descriptions of people that just had no relevance to the story.

    And I had no connection to the char This just wasn't my kind of book.


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      • And I had no connection to the characters. I felt no strong connection between Saleem and Avi. I couldn't understand why Daniel kept writing to Sareet, or why a man was so damn obsessed with writing about the breeze or what have you.

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      I can honestly say I have never met a single person who was so intent on writing about impertinent things in a handwritten letter to someone. The fact that it was the woman that left him for another man just made it even more farfetched to me. This just didn't grip me the way it did for others who read it. It was alright; it probably won't stick with me. I received this in a First Reads giveaway.

      Aug 13, Nicky rated it it was amazing. The Inbetween People is an illuminating novel written by Emma McEvoy, who tells the story of damaged lives tangled together. The story revolves around several major themes such as: I really really enjoyed this book and found it hard to believe that this is her first novel. The writing style is beaut The Inbetween People is an illuminating novel written by Emma McEvoy, who tells the story of damaged lives tangled together.

      The writing style is beautiful, like a slowmoving dream. The language is unbelievable sensual and the story is like nothing you will ever read.

      It stuck with me for a while and my thoughts revolved around the characters while reading it, but after I read the last sentance - I felt like reading it again, in order to catch things, I may have missed. I for sure would recommend this book to anybody with reading taste.

      I am looking out for Emma McEvoys second book I loved this book, reading it was a breath of fresh air. This is a tale that the character Jewish Avi Goldberg appears to need to tell to make sense of his own life. Avi is in prison writing about his friend Saleem an Israeli Arab. He writes about, both his and Saleem's family history and is a jigsaw of a tale, one which you cannot let go until the whole story has been read. I loved the way the intricacies of their lives unravels slowly, how there is a sense of injustice and justice in war.

      I was I loved this book, reading it was a breath of fresh air. I was expecting a standard story, but enjoyably Emma McEvoy drew me into the lives of the characters. There is a sense of peace and calm in the words, so that you can imagine sitting in the heat of the sun as you listen to story being told to you.

      This book has sensitivity, love, sadness, and keeps the story being unravelled in your head when you put the book down. Jul 22, Hermien rated it it was amazing Shelves: I loved the writing, the structure of the book and the richness of the characters. Mar 03, Roy added it. Mar 03, Ben Rand rated it it was amazing. Nov 21, Jennie rated it did not like it Shelves: I couldn't finish this book; reading it was exhausting.

      Jan 27, Karen rated it it was amazing. The Inbetween People is a short but very powerful novel. The writing is exquisitely beautiful, more like poetry than prose in many places. Avi, a young Jewish man, is in a military prison for one month, the length of time he would be doing his reserve duty, if he hadn't refused to do it, and while there he is writing about his Arab friend Saleem and his family. The reasons why Avi has refused to do "his duty" become clear as the book progresses.

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      McEvoy uses the phrase "inbetween people" near the The Inbetween People is a short but very powerful novel. McEvoy uses the phrase "inbetween people" near the end of the book in a way that seemed appropriate to her, I suppose, but for me, the inbetween people are all those in the Israeli mess caught, as our main characters were, between two sides in a never-ending war of violence and revenge killing.

      A wonderful piece of writing. Jan 05, Udine rated it it was amazing. An excellent book, the perspective of the characters, some Israeli, some Arab were believable and heart wrenching. There is an essence I often find in immigrants, both in person and in writing that I find captivating and it really comes down to their view of the world as opposed to the world-weariness of the average American myself included.