Memoirs of a Middle-Aged Hummingbird

On this long, unique, extraordinary journey, we join an American middle-aged teacher as she wanders the world. Emigrating to Israel in 1983, she takes us to a boarding school where she cares for newly arrived Ethiopian teenage immigrants. We follow her next to a small Israeli Arab town.

In 1988, she takes us back to China as it can never be seen again, and through her students'' lives, watches its ...