April 15, 2009
The Hotel Shalom is set in contemporary Israel and the West Bank. It is the story of a recent U.S. high-school graduate, who discovers his Jewish heritage when his mother--a West-bank settler until then absent from his life--invites him to "Israel" for the summer. In these quotation marks lies the tale that then unfolds, an adventure into Jewish life and Arab life, into love and politics and layer upon layer of human history.