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I was so excited to read this book which tells the story about the pioneers that started the kibbutz where I grew up. Unfortunately, Allison Pick vilifies these hardworking individuals as disrespectful, womanizing land thiefs in a book littered with historical inaccuracies.


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Strangers with the Same Dream Alison Pick Books Reviews

This is a compelling novel written with great skill, grace and sensitivity. As with Ms. Pick's other books, it contains a rare combination of gorgeous writing and wise observation together with gripping plot developments. The complexity of the characters, vividness of place, and foreboding of what was to come were all exquisite.
This book begins with a lie. They said she killed herself, that hers was “the first suicide.” She has a story to tell and we, the readers, are “the chosen people” who will hear this story.

This is the enigmatic opening of a novel set in Palestine in the 1920s. A group of halutzim—pioneers—have come to claim the land not out of religious destiny, but as fulfillment of the Zionist dream. Haunted by secrets and tragedies, they are challenged with establishing a kibbutz in the barren north of what will become, a generation later, the Jewish state.

-First, we meet Ida who wants to build Eretz Yisrael in her beloved father’s memory. She strives “to become a new person” suited to her new life on the kibbutz. But things don’t go as planned. “Was this Eretz Yisrael?” she thinks. “She had been promised—had believed so fervently—that they were making something new, but instead, everything was falling to pieces.”

Next, we meet, the group’s quick-on-the-trigger leader. Older than the other halutzim, David has prior experience in settling the land. As a result of his previous efforts fighting off the Bedouins, drought, black clouds of locust, malaria, and broken farm plows, “the whole show was up and running.” Yet, chased by personal failures, David is forced to move on and start again.

And then there is Hannah, David’s wife. She must forego the principles of motherhood and adhere to the decisions of the young kibbutz. Her children “belonged to them all.” David says to her, “We agreed in the meeting that we wouldn’t start having children until after Yom Kippur.” Pregnancy leave is not possible as “We need every hand in the fields.”

As for the novel’s first sentence, the suggestion that a lie accompanies the story may also refer to the kibbutz itself. Far from being the ultimate utopia they envisioned, the kibbutz offers no escape from struggles and infighting, from infidelity and jealousy. Settling the land is far more difficult than what the halutzim had imagined.

“What chutzpah they had at the beginning, to believe the revival of a homeland was something they could accomplish,” David thinks.

The author is a masterful storyteller and her narrative is told in an innovative way. The language is rich, the characters believable. This page-turning drama, marked by pathos and a portrayal of the frailty of human nature, culminates in an unexpected ending that satisfactorily ties together the dreams, and nightmares, of the young settlers. Settlers who, for us, are no longer strangers.
I was so excited to read this book which tells the story about the pioneers that started the kibbutz where I grew up. Unfortunately, Allison Pick vilifies these hardworking individuals as disrespectful, womanizing land thiefs in a book littered with historical inaccuracies.