Night Swimming in the Jordan by Yaara Lahav Gregory

1983. A kibbutz on the bank of the river Jordan. After a fateful protest march and on the eve of her wedding, a young woman leaves for England, never to return. Decades later, her daughter begins to uncover the devastating reality of her mother's childhood in a social experiment that discarded family life in favour of the collective, but can the truth ever be recovered?Spanning the years from 1967?_"2010, Night Swimming in the Jordan dives into what it means to grow up in someone else?_Ts utopia, where the threat of war is ever present and relationships are coloured by ideology.
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