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"Edges, O Israel, O Palestine," from Grace Paley's "Glad Day Books is Slated for a Feature Film. Award-winning Argentinian Director, Jorge Gurvich directs. Screenplay by Caroline Leavitt, recently featured on THE TODAY SHOW and NEW YOUR MAGAZINE, Award-winning author of "Girls in Trouble"

The author will be appearing at the Orpheum Theater on April 21, from noon to 1:30. Book-signing at the LA Times Festival of the Book is on the UCLA Campus on April 28th, sponsored by he Author's Coalition, Booth #610 Zone F

The novel "Edges, O Israel, O Palestine" by Leora Skolkin-Smith and edited by Grace Paley will soon come to life in audio form. Tovah Feldshuh narrates an original audio edition, produced by three-time Peabody award winner, Marjorie Van Halteran. Directed by grammy award winner, Charles Potter.

"Edges" is set in a pre-1967 Israel, during the Cold War. Characters are drawn from Israel's long-forgotten past, members of the 1940's Haganah and Jewish underground who find themselves displaced amidst the chaotic and complex tensions of an Israel just beginning to modernize and expand.

Grace Paley writes: "EDGES takes the reader to an Israel before high walls formed a border, when, instead, metal wires hung "like hosiery lines" across the land.

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