David Madden’s Reviews > My Michael: A Haunting Literary Novel – Israel's Modern Madame Bovary Set in 1950s Jerusalem > Status Update

Line by line, Oz reveals, in first person, the subjective memoir of a wife and mother in Jerusalem of the 1950's who is moment by moment trying to fend off increments of insanity and who day by day somehow succeeds, causing the reader to fear for her and then to be glad she has kept still. She articulates her odd and perilous feelings as she observes her husband and son. She remembers lovely sex with twin Arabs.