Dear Mum: in Israel this year has been indescribably awful. How I wish you were here | Etgar Keret
Many Israelis say they are glad their parents aren’t alive to see these horrors. But you would have found hope in the darkness
- Etgar Keret is an Israeli writer and poet
Dear Mum,
It’s been five years since you died, and I’m only now writing. I’m sorry it took me so long, but I was waiting for some good news to share, and there never was any. I could have written to you about the Covid-19 pandemic, or about the messianic rightwing government formed by Benjamin Netanyahu, whom you never could stand.
Etgar Keret is an Israeli writer. He publishes a weekly Substack, Alphabet Soup. This article was translated by Jessica Cohen
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