2018
People Like Us
A darkly comic portrait of a family and the gap between who we think we are and how we actually live.
Osnat and Dror, a couple in their forties with two daughters, buy their dream home in a rundown neighborhood — betting on gentrification, on their own good taste, on the idea that people like them belong somewhere better. Then the neighborhood pushes back. A sharp, darkly comic portrait of a family, a social class, and the gap between who we think we are and how we actually live.
"This novel examines an Ashkenazi-secular community under scrutiny, with masks stripped from smug faces with striking boldness."
"Sharp language and ironic dialogue dissect upper-middle-class Israeli life with precision and psychological depth."
"A psychologically thrilling novel that is contemporary, intelligent, and darkly humorous about bourgeois complacency."
"Yedlin's cultural insight is comparable to Houellebecq and Franzen in capturing the contemporary zeitgeist."
"Examines an Ashkenazi-secular community with masks stripped from smug faces with striking boldness."
"Top-notch."
"Contemporary, intelligent, and darkly humorous about bourgeois complacency."
Prizes
- Prime Minister's Literature Award (2022)
Adaptations
- People Like Us — Israeli TV series, Kan 11, written by Noa Yedlin, 2024