MAPPING EDEN

Understated yet intensely emotional, Carol Japha’s MAPPING EDEN, a novel of an immigrant family told from the perspective of a young girl, aches with a desperate longing for human connection. The search for personal and cultural identity, seen through the haze of naive childhood, takes on the fragmentary, dreamlike quality of a half-remembered fable, and Japha renders her young protagonist’s experience with sensitivity and an exquisite eye for historical and psychological detail.