Mazel Tov

When 20-year-old student J. S. Margot took a tutoring job in 1987, little did she know it would open up an entire world.

In their household she would encounter endless rules and quirks she had never seen before. By turns puzzled and angered, she taught the children and fiercely debated with the family, before gradually beginning to learn from them.

Full of funny misunderstanding and unexpected connections, Mazel Tov is a disarmingly honest memoir of clashing cultures and unusual friendship -  and how, where adults build walls, sometimes only children can tear them down.