Naama Goldstein
The Place Will Comfort You
Scribner, 2004
A girlhood spent in Israel’s Zionist-Orthodox milieu inspires Naama Goldstein’s stories, in which visions of extremism and disconnection often play out to the rhythms of modern and Biblical Hebrew. In Goldstein’s debut collection, The Place Will Comfort You, religious fundamentalism, rock 'n’ roll fandom, and teenage anorexia are all given a lyrical, tragi-comic voice, which Grace Paley has hailed as “a caustic new Hebrew melody.”
Naama was born in Boston, immigrating to Israel with her family at the age of three, and settling in the city of Petakh Tikva until returning to the United States thirteen years later. Her stories have appeared in publications including The Republic of Letters, Arts and Letters, and Pakn Treger. She is currently at work on a novel, which was selected for a Hadassah-Brandeis Senior Research Award. She makes her home in Boston with her husband and son.
