Accidents: A Novel

Accidents is a first novel about three people—Shira Klein, Yonatan Luria, and his daughter Dana—during a difficult winter. Yonatan is a fifty-year-old widower and marginal writer raising his child alone. Shira is a bestselling author struggling with stage fright. When they meet, a tentative romance develops between them, marked by moments of tenderness and conflict, generosity and withdrawal. The novel is told through multiple voices—friends, neighbors, ex-lovers, and family members speaking from past and present. As this emerging family navigates toward connection, they face ordinary hardships: a dying father, angry children, painful moments, and a troubling gap between the two writers' professional success. The story follows these characters through fragility, vulnerability, and moments of joy, building from small, unremarkable daily events into a larger portrait of shared life and family.