Mountains, rivers, deserts and decades stand between them. Their countries are bitter enemies. Will these long-ago lovers find their way back together? When Geddy Mason falls in love with 17-year-old Annie Yousefian, an exotic undergrad from Iran, he considers abandoning his dream to move to Israel. But when he graduates, he leaves Annie brokenhearted in Indiana. 2006, Israel. Canadian-born Geddy Mason has served in the army, married, raised his family in Israel. Yet 35 years of memories and guilt continue to haunt him and he still wonders about Annie. Then he discovers Annie will be the featured speaker at a conference in Ottawa. He decides he must go to her, risk all his memories, try to make amends. Will Annie turn him away? Or will she welcome him, putting an end to decades of estrangement? "Bossin's dialogue is crisp and often funny. The interplay between Annie and Geddy as they fall in love enchants, while their pain as they part is palpable. You wonder if they will ever get together again. If you have ever loved, you will love this tale of love and longing." - Marshall J. Cook, Professor Emeritus Creative Writing, University of Wisconsin-Madison, prolific author of novels and nonfiction, editor of Extra Innings , an online newsletter for writers. "If We Could See Forever is a compelling portrait of the tenacity,optimism and ideology that sustain a young Jew in his decision to leave North America for a less certain future in the State of Israel." - Eric Caplan, Professor of Jewish Studies, McGill University. "Bravo! If We Could See Forever is a wonderful story, touching, beautifully told." - Sandor Stern, director, producer, screenwriter of 30+ Hollywood movies, author. "Bossin's true-to-life novel moves me to recall and relive my own story, my decision to immigrate to Israel, to serve in the army, to marry and raise my family here." - Uri Veckstein, Eng., Argentinean immigrant to Israel (1971). "In 2006, Geddy encounters an Iranian-American tourist in Akko who insists "much sooner than it appears right now" he will fly direct from Tehran to Tel Aviv as he did in 1974. This scene expresses an allegorical theme of Gadi Bossin's inspiring novel: Persian-Jewish cultural rapport, dating back 2500 years to Xerxes and Esther, will survive and endure, despite the current geopolitical tensions between Iran and Israel." - Dr. Jeanette Rotstain Yehudayan, Iranian-Israeli singer-actress, Classical Persian vocalist, collector of Judeo-Persian liturgical poems. "The plot is supreme and I found myself reading the final chapters holding my breath. But the novel also underscores how public events impact upon private lives, as it takes readers to Poland under the Nazis, to strife-ridden 1970 American college campuses, to Iran under the ayatollahs and to 2006 northern Israel under deadly Hezbollah rocket attacks." - Chun Bao, translator of literary fiction and children's books. What if we could see forever? Would we be easier on ourselves? Perhaps. Emanuel Katzberg, the Holocaust survivor writing his personal history with Geddy Mason's assistance, says when we make what we believe are fateful life choices they're almost never all-or-nothing decisions. Life, he adds, often presents us with second chances. That's what I learned after publishing If We Could See Forever . The real-life counterpart of Annie Yousefian read my novel and, after 42 years of no contact between us, reconnected with me. And incredibly, once again, we are close.