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Podcast: What Happened Next: a podcast about newish books
Episode: Ayelet Tsabari
Description: My guest on this 100th episode is Ayelet Tsabari. Ayelet is the author of the short-story collection The Best Place on Earth and the memoir The Art of Leaving, which won the Canadian Jewish Literary Award and was a finalist for the Hilary Weston Writers’ Trust Prize for Nonfiction. She is also a co-editor of the anthology Tongues: On Longing and Belonging through Language. Her most recent book is the novel Songs for the Brokenhearted, published by HarperCollins Canada in 2024. That book won a National Jewish Book Award for Fiction and the AJL Jewish Fiction Award, and was named a bo...