Interview with Shani Boianjiu, author of “The People of Forever Are Not Afraid”
Shani Boianjiu was born in Jerusalem twenty-five years ago, and grew up in a village near the Lebanese border. She later studied at Harvard. Her debut novel, The people of forever are not afraid, which chronicles the experiences of three teenage Israeli girls through their high school years, military service and on into civilian life, was published in English at the end of 2012. In the following interview (given to the online magazine Tablet in December 2012),