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Waking Lions by Ayelet Gundar-Goshen is set in modern-day Israel and follows Dr. Eitan Green, who becomes enmeshed in a moral and legal quagmire after committing a hit-and-run, killing an Eritrean refugee. The refugee's widow, Sirkit, coerces Eitan into providing medical aid to illegal refugees to atone for his crime, all while his police officer wife, Liat, investigates the death, leading to a complex and tense narrative about justice, morality, and the plight of marginalized individuals.