Download As Figs in Autumn a memoir: One Year in a Forever War

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As
Figs
in
Autumn
a
memoir
One
Year
in
a
Forever
War
Description

Set against the diverse landscapes of
Israel, Bastomski8217sjourney from Ivy League
university to the Israeli army is a deeply
personal memoir chronicling his journey out of
grief and finally finding his own way back
home.nbspInhis final college semester, Ben
awakens to read on his computer screen about the
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death of his classmate and childhood friend Avi.
Avi8217sdeath is sudden and senseless, killed
by a drunk driver on his way back to his dorm.
Here begins Ben8217sstory of coming to terms
with loss and finding his way to
adulthood.nbspInthe fall of 2010, with his new
degree in Moral Philosophy, Ben boards a plane to
Israel to enlist in the Israel Defense Forces
(IDF). Though Ben has never held a gun, before
the next summer ends, he is a trained
sharpshooter. His service takes him from the
Negev Desert to the Occupied Territories and
Gazan border, all while finding quothomquotat a
southern kibbutz where he is adopted as a brother
and son. From Providence, Rhode Island to
California and at last to Israel where Ben joins
Mahal, the special set of non-Israeli-born Jews
who volunteer in the IDF, he finds family where
never expected, a place of his own in the Israeli
mosaic. In a memoir that is both a coming- of-age
story and epic ballad, Bastomski8217slyrically
told story is intensely personal and ultimately
universal.