Michael Winter
'Jonathan Garfinkel crosses so many intimate borders he should be issued an emotional passport. "Ambivalence" ducks headlong into the political in a very personal way. Here’s a memoir of a perplexed man digging up his past in an effort to bury the divide in his own soul.'
David Rakoff, author of "Don’t Get Too Comfortable"
'Marvelous. Jonathan Garfinkel deftly mines what it means to simultaneously belong, disavow, love, and loathe an identity, a culture, and a history. And he does so with artful language and deep feeling. Unless you go through life with a four-year-old's lack of nuance (and if you do, congrats on that), then "Ambivalence" is a must-read.'
