A first novel written by PEN Discovery Award Winner Risa Miller, Welcome to Heavenly Heights describes a group of American Jews who have left the United States, not just to move to Israel, but to live in a settlement on the West Bank. Miller conjures a culture and a movement-part religion, part pipe dream-viewed through the pinhole of one ragged apartment building's door: its families, their dinners, their weddings, their marriages, their sorrows. While bombs can be heard at the edges of these pages, it is inside the settlement, Heavenly Heights where Miller's delicate, understated prose limns the lives of these tender souls.
"Thoughtful, lovely language with the lightest touch . . . poetic, deeply affecting. An allusive, graceful novel."
Neil Gordon, The New York Times Book Review
"This novel pulses with acute observation--and with implications of a broader tragedy. In honoring the particularities of human life in Heavenly Heights, this fine writer honors life everywhere."
James Carroll
"Remarkable prose . . . memorable portraits of people in sync with both the country they've left behind and the political reality of their new home."
