"[These stories] speak to the delicate balance of anyone straddling (at least) two cultures, (at least) two languages, (at least) two ideas of "home," and (at the very least) overlapping and intersecting particulars, details, and truths that make individuals both individual and part of a community.

—QWF Awards Jury

Advance praise

An exquisite foray into place, memory and Jewish identity. At once intimate and grand, Here Is Still Here is the type of book that soon feels like a friend.

—Mireille Silcoff, author of Chez L'arabe

What Makes a Life

"Slapak’s prose is pensive and resonating, touching on truths about aging, family, friendship, and what makes a life, offering these to us through Isabel’s lens of traumatic history, self-doubt, and hope." Read more here.

—Tina Wayland, mRb

Unique Novel about a Woman Seeking a Spiritual Home in Jerusalem — Through Yiddish

"A thoughtful Yiddish-language review that explores the Yiddish-language throughline of the book, through an underground speakeasy, Holocaust memory, and romance."

—November 2024, Yiddish Forward