The Healing Power of Stories | Ayelet Gundar-Goshen, Author of The Wolf Hunt

Recorded on February 21st, 2024.
Award-winning Israeli novelist and clinical psychologist Ayelet Gundar-Goshen discusses her new book, The Wolf Hunt, and the impact of trauma in her literary work. Working with terror victims in Israel after October 7, she also discusses the impact of mass trauma and the possibility of healing.
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About the Book:
In Gundar-Goshen’s latest novel, The Wolf Hunt, the lives of an Israeli family based in Silicon Valley are shattered after a terror attack on a local synagogue. The novel is an exploration of the fault lines in a community, a school, and a family as an Israeli mother begins to suspect her teenage son of committing a terrible hate crime as revenge. It is also a piercing, psychological portrait of the relationship between parents and their children, a story about a mother forced to take on the role of a detective, in search of a truth that might destroy her. An international bestseller, The Wolf Hunt has been published in 17 countries and met with rave reviews around the world. Winner of WIZO prize, Italy, 2023.
About the Speaker
Award-winning author Ayelet Gundar-Goshen is the author of four novels, One Night, Markovitch; Waking Lions; The Liar; and, most recently, The Wolf Hunt. She is the recipient of the Sapir Prize for Literature of Israel-the country’s most prestigious annual literary award-as well as other European and American literary prizes, and her works have been translated into more than 14 languages. Gundar-Goshen is a contributor to BBC's The Cultural Frontline, Financial Times, Time Magazine, The Telegraph, and The Atlantic. She has lectured at UC Berkeley, Columbia University, UCLA, and Carleton College, among other institutions. Gundar-Goshen is also a practicing clinical psychologist. After October 7, the psychiatric hospital where she works declared a state of emergency. Since then, she has been working with victims of the terrorist attack, and discovering how narrative can play a role in helping to overcome trauma.
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Exceptional novel. It’s the second one I’ve read by this author but this one is so much more powerful. I’ve not finished it yet but I am overwhelmed by the book.