When I return to a book I have finished writing, I sometimes find things I did not know I had left there. A sentence takes on a different meaning. A character’s decision becomes easier to understand, or harder to forgive. Time has changed the reader, even when that reader is me.
Perhaps that is why the thought of these books reaching new readers still moves me. My three Hebrew-language novels—A Woman and Four Lands, Love on Trial, and Libby Reads Horoscopes—are now also available on Amazon.
Looking at these three covers side by side, I think of years spent writing and questions that have returned to me in different forms: what we allow ourselves to ask in the name of love, how we justify our choices, and whether we can still change direction after traveling far from where we began.
Every reader brings something I could never have written into the book: a life of their own. A particular memory. A love that ended. A decision they are still trying to understand. In that quiet encounter between a person and a page, the story takes on meanings I could not have anticipated.
There is particular meaning for me in seeing these books find new readers in Hebrew, the language in which their characters first found their voices. I like to imagine someone far from here opening one of them and finding something familiar.
To those who have already read these books, and those who may discover them now: thank you for your time, your attention, and the place you give my words in your lives.
And if you have already read one of them, I would love to hear what stayed with you after the final page.
