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Jonas didn't care that I wasn't Jewish and he didn't believe in conversion. For him, being Jewish had nothing to do with God. You had to be born that way, otherwise, too bad." He used to say, "Being Jewish isn't a religion, it's a way of being afraid; you can't learn that in an evening class." Jonas and Lucie love each other. He's Jewish, she isn't, but he promises it doesn't matter. Yet, she quickly understands that he's burdened by obligations that are beyond both of them and to which she will have to adapt. When their son Ariel is born, the whole family is overjoyed. But shortly after his second birthday, he starts being brutal with other children, gradually plunging the couple into isolation. Why does Ariel hit? What does this violence say about his story and that of his parents? Otherness is at the heart of this funny and tender novel, which offers a unique perspective on this furious tendency in children not to be what we want them to be
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