The Beauty Queen of Jerusalem

by Sarit Yishai-Levi

A novel about mothers and daughters, the complex relationship between them and the secrets we all keep. The Beauty Queen of Jerusalem is set in the Golden Age of Hollywood, World War II and the Seventies. Gabriela struggles to connect with her famous mother Luna, until she digs more into their family’s history and unravels the stories of the generations of women that came before her.

Sarit Yishai-Levi is an Israeli journalist and author. She was born to a Sephardic family and is an eighth generation Jerusalemite. The Beauty Queen of Jerusalem was her first work of fiction that won many awards and went on to become a TV show.