"No, it isn't weird. I —" Lee has to stop and think about what she wants to say, picking words up and turning them over, examining them from the other side.
"I think tradition is not enough anymore. It's important — I feel... homesick without it. But there isn't a place for everybody in it. I always feel like an alien, trying to fit in a box that doesn't fit. — There are people like me in the Mishna, you know. A rabbi in Istanbul told me that."
— had she mentioned that before. Probably not. Lee has been very vague about the period between Israel and New York.
"I just... I want to feel like I belong. You know?"