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Heatwave and Crazy Birds Belgian Literature Series and the mechanisms determining ourWhen her archeologist father died, Loya Kaplan left Israel seemingly for good, severing all ties to her past. She returns now to a country that has become alien to her, and the house where she was raised, filled with relics of her past and her family. When her archeologist father died, Loya Kaplan cut all ties and left Israel (apparently) for good. Twenty five years later, sleepwalking through life, Loya is summoned back to Israel following the death