I once knew Yishai Sarid personally. We worked at the same place and he even attended my wedding. So as soon as I read he had a new book out, "גן נעמי" ("Naomi's Kindergarten"), I went out and bought it. The book is the story of an ageing woman who manages a kindergarten in a small building, not far from Tel Aviv beach. A local real estate entrepreneur buys the building and gives Naomi a notice of eviction, as he wishes to demolish the building and build an extravagant upscale condominium in its place. Naomi doesn't know what to do. She struggles to make ends meet anyway. Her energies are spent from constantly having to deal with "over-parenting" parents and from worrying about her artist son. She hires a lawyer to track down her American benefactor's heirs, as she was promised she could continue using the building. There is no happy ending to the book. It is a sad book, dealing with some of the civic issues plaguing Israel's biggest city. I enjoyed this book. It is markedly different than Sarid's first novel, "Limassol" - it is much slower in pace and has a much "softer" ending - but it is much more touching and thought provoking. Kudos to Sarid for another great book. ( )