Snapshots

Michal Govrin, the award-winning author of "The Name," returns with "Snapshots," the story of one woman's remarkable life as discovered in increments by her husband. Ilana Tsuriel is a brilliant Israeli scholar and architect strugglingwith her identity and pulled between her lives in New York, Jerusalem, and Paris. Then, when Ilana is killed in a car accident, her husband, Alain, begins a complex odyssey to uncover the truth about her life. As Alain sifts through Ilana's notes, photos, diaries, letters, and drawings, he begins to piece together the reality of his wife's life, her efforts to save her family and connect with her homeland and her plans to build a "Utopian Monument" in Jerusalem.