It could happen to any family, and it happened to the Levingers':
their grandpa is missing.
"You don't remember where your grandfather lives?" Asked Shmulik.
"Just ask."
The adjacent buildings made him confused. Some were renovated, rose with the y...
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This is probably the question I get asked the most since I first told people about my book.Where did you get the idea to write about old people and their caregivers?Much has been written about inspiration and a spark that suddenly lands out of nowhere. I'm not sure if that defines what happened to me. But one day, in 2015, I was walking down Rothschild Boulevard in Tel Aviv and glanced at the benches on the side of the avenue. Many elderly people were sitting on them or beside them in wheelchairs, some of them were wrapped in blankets. Not far from them sat their Filipino caregivers, talking to each other or on their cell phones. From time to time the women checked how their employer was doing.The boulevard was packed with people moving back and forth in their daily lives. Those old men and Filipinas were an almost transparent landscape and a background for the urban image.That's when I wondered what would happen if two people - an elderly man and his foreign caregiver - were to disappear.It was not an apocalyptic thought in the style of science fiction books but something that felt very realistic to me. It seems to me that it is likely that such a thing will happen in the flow of life and the busy routine of everyone and it is even more likely and possible that no one around will notice it.Not even the family and relatives of that elderly person. And that's where I started. I wrote the first chapter (which has been changed and edited several times since then, but its essence remains the same) in which two brothers-in-law come to pick up the grandfather for Passover dinner but cannot find him. The chapter rested in the virtual drawer for two years and then I returned to add the second chapter to it. After resting for another two years, I decided that the story and the plot are too worthy to remain unknown and the characters I created should be heard. I committed myself out loud to the process and got swept up in the plot of the book.You're invited to dive into the special world of people in their old age and the women who care for them. The book will be translated soon, in the meantime subscribe to the mailing list on the home page www.tovitneizer.com/englishhomepage to be the first to know when it happens.
