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Inside the Bubble Niv

Brief Description: Niv's Inside the Bubble examines the lives of five Israeli women living in San Francisco and the struggles they face raising their families and understanding their identities all while situated in the wild epicenter of technological innovation. Description for Sales People: 1) A STORY OF FEMALE FRIENDSHIP: Displaced from their native land and struggling to adjust to a foreign culture, the women of Inside the Bubble form close ties to help each other overcome their homesickness and to support each other as each woman confronts her own set of difficulties. 2) AUDIENCE: The author, Noga Niv, emphasizes the importance of retaining cultural community in the face of a radically different American lifestyle. Although the story focuses on Israelis, Niv hopes that the story will be accessible and meaningful to all immigrants. The core audience for this book is older, female, foreign-born (mostly likely Israeli). 3) JEWISH/AMERICAN ANGLE: Part of our pitching plan includes reaching out to top Jewish websites, Jewish organizations, Jewish themed literary magazines and popular Jewish newspapers in America. First published in Hebrew in Israel (2008), we're excited to introduce this English version to an American audience. 4) PSYCHOLOGICAL ANGLE: Just like the author, the novel's protagonist, Daniela, is a clinical psychologist. She helps her friends grapple with the difficulties of raising children away from their cultural homeland, with the echoes of past memories, with the changing faces of their marriages, and with the evolution of their womanhood during middle age. The central themes of the book are about reconciling past and present solidifying identity and the Jungian process of individuation how we become our full selves in the latter halves of our lives."Review Quotes: "A modern-day Mary McCarthy... "Inside the Bubble" is spicy, complex and utterly satisfying." Wendy Justus, M. A., L. C. S. W. "A unique perspective on the centerpiece of current American economic life, Silicon Valley... Noga Niv shows us the human face of High Tech the personal, couple, family lives of those who bring these dramatic changes to modern life." Richard Almond, M. D., Psychoanalyst and Author "Heartwarming and enlightening." Jo-Ann Jacobson, Chair, Contra Costa Jewish Book & Arts Festival "A page-turner from cover to cover. Insights into the psychological and emotional ups and downs experienced by a group of women who move with their families from the comforts of established living in Israel to the pressure-packed life of hard-driving entrepreneurs in Silicon Valley." Allen Calvin, President, Palo Alto University"

Contributor Bio:  Niv Noga Niv is a clinical psychologist in a private practice in Palo Alto, CA. She holds an MA in psychology from Tel Aviv University and a PhD in psychology from PGSP, now Palo Alto University. She was trained in clinical psychology at Stanford University and in psychoanalytic psychotherapy. Inside the Bubble is her first novel. It was previously published in Israel in 2008.