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Dorit Rabinyan\'s All the Rivers is about a Israeli women and Palestinian man who meet in New York.\\xa0An immediate best seller in Israel, the novel was named one of the ten best books of 2014 by Ha\\u2019aretz newspaper and won the Bernstein Award for Literature. In January 2016, the Israeli Ministry of Education banned the book from high school curriculum.

Marcela reads parts of this novel, including this excerpt from :

"\\u201cHere\\u2019s the thing about me.\\u201d He put his right hand on his chest like I had done. \\u201cThere are three things I don\\u2019t know how to do.\\u201d
\\u201cOnly three? That\\u2019s not bad.\\u201d
\\u201cThree things a man should know.\\u201d
\\u201cShould?\\u201d
\\u201cYes. A man should know how to drive, and I don\\u2019t. I\\u2019ve never driven.\\u201d
\\u201cWalla?\\u201d I said, expressing my surprise.
He grinned as he had on the previous times I\\u2019d used Arabic words like walla or achla.
I held up my thumb, starting to count his flaws: \\u201cYou don\\u2019t drive.\\u201d
\\u201cI don\\u2019t know how to shoot a gun.\\u201d
Unintentionally, my thumb and finger formed a childish pistol.
\\u201cYes . . .\\u201d
\\u201cAnd swimming. I can\\u2019t swim.\\u201d He saw my face fall. \\u201cI was born and raised in Hebron,\\u201d he said as if by way of apology.
\\u201cThere\\u2019s no sea there.\\u201d"

Text:
All The Rivers by Dorit Rabinyan. Translated by Jessica Cohen. Penguin Random House, 2017.

Music:
Medjool live on the roof
Jimi Hendrix - 12 String Blues