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Light Years High Dive
He went to school to learn how to kill me. The Arden has a plane ticket to Sardinia to say
Israeli girl who ruined his life. Seven people were goodbye to her family’s beloved vacation home
killed instead. A single mother of two. A computer after her father’s sudden death and her mother’s
programmer. Two college students. A grandmother deployment to Iraq as an army nurse. Lonely for
and her four-year-old grandson sharing an ice her father and petrified for her mother’s safety,
cream. And Dov, my boyfriend, my heart, the man I Arden dreads her trip to the house in Sardinia—the
wanted to marry, who was there waiting for me. only place that has truly felt like home to her. So
when she meets a group of fun, carefree, and
Maya leaves Israel to study astronomy at the careless friends on their summer break, she
University of Virginia, running from the violence, decides to put off her trip and join them to sample
guilt, and memories of her past. As the narrative the sights and culinary delights of Europe. Soon
switches between Virginia and Israel, we learn they are climbing the Eiffel Tower, taking in the
about Maya’s life as a soldier, her ambiguous French countryside on a train chugging toward
devotion to Israel, and her love for her boyfriend, the Alps, and gazing at Michelangelo’s David in
Dov, who is tragically killed in a suicide bombing. Florence, all the while eating gelato and sipping
Now, in Virginia, amid the day-to-day pressures of cappuccino. Arden tries to forget about the danger
classes, roommates, and fraternity parties, Maya her mom faces every day, to pretend she’s just
attempts to reconcile her Israeli past with her like the rest of the girls, flirting with cute European
American future. guys and worried only about where to party next.
But the house in Sardinia beckons and she has to
make a choice. Is Arden ready to jump off the
high dive?
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16. See page 267 for details!
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