Four Mothers

Come, listen, listen to the story of the curse that foreshadowed every father’s disappearance. Be comforted by your four mothers.

Shifra Horn’s lyrical novel spans five generations of women and one hundred years of life in Jerusalem. While Amal is despondent at her husband’s desertion after the birth of her first child, her mother, grandmother and great-grandmother realise that the birth of a healthy boy means their family’s curse has been broken. Motherhood initiates Amal into the se…