In “Waters in the Ziplock” Dana Vowinckel tells of the summer in which a Jewish family argues about whether it can be endured in Germany any longer. A harrowing, enchanting debut.
Until the last page it is a question of whether they will ever get back together: father, mother and child. In literature, all families are usually unhappy in their own way. But then, in their sticky fatefulness, they never let go of their members. The feeling in Dana Vowinckel’s novel “Waters in the Ziplock” is different: these three could go in different directions at any time. You already find them like this, the child in Chicago, the father in Berlin, the mother in Jerusalem. Their inner lives are also told as if each of these characters had their own world revolving around them, in which they were forever homesick for one another.