`ILLUMINATED SOUL'
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slavery into freedom.
Eva is a wandering Jew as well.
She speaks many languages. She is
educated and cultivated, but she is
not at home anywhere.
JN: You have an unusual day job
.for a writer. How did you come
to be a neuroradiologist?
ALS: I always knew I wanted to
vvrite. I talked to the chairman at
Mount Sinai [Hospital in New
York City) and we worked it out
so that I could work three days a
week at the hospital and continue
writing. Being a physician allows
me to make a living and I can
write without worrying how many
books I sell.
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JN: You set both your novels in
Windsor, your hometown. What
qualities of the city lent them-
selves to The Illuminated Soul?
ALS: Although my parents moved
to Jerusalem 12 years ago, I still
have friends in Windsor who I keep
in touch with. My father has a large
family in Detroit, so I travel back and forth quite a bit.
I remember Windsor as being a very beautiful place. My father
was the rabbi of the synagogue and we would take long walks to
the river on the Sabbath. Perhaps in one's memory it becomes
exaggerated, but it was a very beautiful little town.
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JN: Both this book and your first novel, The Far Euphrates, are
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It had to
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all have people who have done this in our lives. When they are
gone, it brings heartbreak, but once they change you, they have
done the good for you and don't have to be with you forever.
There is always something beneficial that remains.
Eva didn't cure the Ivris, but she improved them.
JN: What's in store for Stollman fans now?
ALS: I am just starting a third novel, but it is so embryonic, there
is not much I can say about it. I have a short story collection coin-
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