An autofiction novel · Joni Fenix
BREATHE STEADILY
01 · From chapter one
In our house, there was no such thing as an alarm clock.
Everyone got up whenever they wanted. You can understand why I threw a lava lamp at my nanny. I simply wasn’t used to anyone waking me.
Start reading →02 · The world of the novel
Family was the law.
A criminal family, money, power, and a childhood among people for whom loyalty mattered more than the law. The novel moves between Russia and Israel, fact and fiction, brutality and sensitivity.
“Not being a sheep means taking before someone takes from you.”
03 · The book
BREATHE STEADILY
Autofiction about a boy raised inside a criminal family and the man trying to discover what remains beneath the armor. Reality is mixed here with memory and fiction.
1989 · Tel Aviv04 · Author
Joni Fenix
I was born in 1989 and grew up in Israel. For a long time, I thought I knew the story of my family and my own childhood rather well. The older I became, the less certain I was.
That is why I began to write: to return to the people, events, and memories that had existed in my mind in one version for years, and to look at them again. That is how BREATHE STEADILY came into being. It is autofiction: some of it happened, some of it could have happened, and I no longer always want to know where the boundary lies.
I now live in Tel Aviv. BREATHE STEADILY is my first book.
05 · FAQ
About the book
What kind of book is it?+
An autofiction novel about family, memory, power, and vulnerability.
Where can I read it?+
The opening chapters are available free on this site.
When will the full book be released?+
Release news will be published on the author’s Telegram.
@jonifenix