HUNTING IN AMERICA

An award-winning, thrillingly subversive novel about an Israeli woman who moves to America, takes up hunting, and is drawn into a world of predator, prey, and dark attraction.

An Israeli woman relocates to America on assignment from her tech company. In an attempt to leave her past behind and adapt entirely to the new culture in which she finds herself, she joins her colleagues on a deer hunt, discovering a surprising acumen for the sport. She fires again and again, refining her skills with every shot. As she embarks on an affair with her hunting guide and colleague, David, she sinks deeper into hunting season, vacillating between predator and prey as the boundaries between man, woman, work, and nature begin to collapse. Hunting with David becomes the one stable aspect of her life until one day everything changes.

With a poet's eye and a hunter's aim, Tehila Hakimi's beguiling debut novel is a taut, twisty story about the everyday violence that haunts countries, and one woman's tenuous grasp on reality.

Tehila Hakimi is an award-winning Hebrew novelist and poet. She was a participant of the 2018 Fulbright International Writing Program Fellowship in The University of Iowa. For her first collection of poetry, We'll Work Tomorrow, 2014, she received the Prize for Emerging Poets by the Ministry of Culture (2014) and the 2015 Bernstein Prize for Literature. She published a graphic novel, In the Water and a collection of linked prose, Company, with Resling (2018). She was awarded The National Library's Pardes Scholarship for writers 2019, and The 2018 Levi Eshkol Prize for Hebrew Writers. Hakimi's short prose was published in PRISM international, Asymptote, World Literature today and more. Hakimi holds a BSc in mechanical engineering.