Rafi Mittlefehldt is a writer who has worked as a newspaper reporter, freelance theater critic, and children’s author. His debut novel was It Looks Like This. Rafi Mittlefehldt lives with his husband in New York City.
What Makes Us is a heart-stopping, heartbreaking read -- a book full of heart. Mittlefehldt's thoughtful, nuanced exploration of identity pulled me in from the very first page, and I could barely put it down. Eran's story takes a universal coming-of-age theme -- finding out your parents aren't who you thought they were -- to a tightly wound and thrilling extreme. Most important, this book provides satisfying, much-needed representation of a contemporary, complex Jewish teen and his family. --Lisa Rosinsky, author of Inevitable and Only