Television rights optioned by YES Tamar lives in the Northern Room of a Tel Aviv apartment she shares with Maya, who occupies the Southern Room. But the apartment comes with a legacy that whoever lives in the Southern Room falls in love, gets engaged and moves out. Tamar dreams of the day that it will be her turn in the Southern Room, and when she meets Ari, she thinks she’s found her one and only. But when Tamar becomes pregnant, she learns that Ari's wife is also pregnant – and he won't leave her for Tamar.

So begins Tamar’s journey into single motherhood, against the backdrop of a hard childhood and a troubled relationship with her parents, especially her overbearing mother. The pregnancy feels like the first thing that Tamar has ever done for herself. And while her relationship with Ari deteriorates and borders on the obsessive, there is one thing that Tamar clings to – her child. Against the backdrop of wartime air-raid sirens and a coffee shop that Tamar stalks in the hope of running into Ari, THE SOUTHERN ROOM is a novel about a woman who commits to live life on her own terms. Motherhood becomes her escape, her choice, her “Southern Room.”

Reviews:

"An exceptionally sophisticated and profound storyteller." –Haaretz

"A book that is constantly in motion...a novel that has no idle parts...the way Tamar thinks gives her voice a unique combination of childishness and sophistication...a living and unconventional voice." –Yedioth

"A polished, smart, and surprising novel." –Makor Rishon

"A fully formed novel that poses interesting questions about freedom and love." –Israel Today