Another's Child

By: Einat Danon

Yael and Arik Katz receive a surprise inheritance: Noa, the ten-year-old daughter of Canadian friends from their past. Yael takes Noa back to Toronto to look for another home. There Yael uncovers a serious dilemma and her life can never be the same.

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Book Description

Imagine inheriting a child that you don't even know!

One morning, Yael and Arik Katz are startled by a surprise inheritance: Noa, the ten-year-old daughter of Canadian friends with whom they had made a long-forgotten will-exchange agreement, is delivered to their doorstep with no warning. Why did her parents decide that she should grow up with acquaintances rather than family? How do you raise a girl you do not even know?Secrets and lies are revealed and everything starts to get complicated

Noa does not find her place in Israel. Yael takes her back to Toronto to look for a more suitable adoptive home. The search reveals answers to questions that have not even been asked about parenthood, marital relations, love, one's home, and the fragility of life.Can life ever be the same again?

As Yael delves into Noa's past to better understand her, she discovers some unflattering things about her own partner and that the connection between her family and Noa is deeper than it had seemed. These shocking revelations leave Yael with a serious dilemma about her own family relationships.

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