"Tsabari's characters will step off the page to captivate readers." --PUBLISHERS WEEKLY

Confident, original and humane, these stories are peopled with characters at the crossroads of nationalities, religions and communities: expatriates, travellers, immigrants and locals. The Best Place on Earth illuminates the tenuous connections--forged, frayed and occasionally destroyed--between cultures, between generations and across the gulf of transformation and loss.

In the powerfully affecting opening story, "Tikkun," a chance meeting between a man and his former...