THE IRON SEASON

Against the backdrop of looming war, the parallel rise of Zionism and Arab nationalism, and the explosive growth of the United States as a world power, THE IRON SEASON continues the unlikely love story of the woman made from clay, and the man made from fire.

The eagerly anticipated sequel to The Golem and the Jinni, THE IRON SEASON picks up the story of Chava the Golem and Ahmad the Jinni, still in New York at the outset of World War I. Chava continues to live on the Lower East Side, while Ahmad has moved to Greenwich Village, where he moves among the bohemian set. Their lives are upended when Sophia Winston, the Fifth Avenue heiress with whom the Jinni had a tryst, and who has become a Middle Eastern archeologist friendly with the likes of T.E. Lawrence and Gertrude Bell, returns from an expedition to Syria with the news that the flask carrying the trapped wizard Schaalman has found its way to the Metropolitan Museum of Art. She also brings another jinni, this one in human female form, a jinniyeh. Meanwhile, a dangerous trove of mystical books, once owned by Chava's friend Rabbi Meyer, resurfaces in the unlikeliest of places: a Jewish orphanage on the Upper West Side. These new developments will pose deadly threats to the uneasy peace of Chava and Ahmad.

Against the backdrop of looming war, the parallel rise of Zionism and Arab nationalism, and the explosive growth of the United States as a world power, THE IRON SEASON continues the unlikely love story of the woman made from clay, and the man made from fire.

HELENE WECKER is the author of The Golem and the Jinni, published by HarperCollins in 2013. She received her Bachelor's in English from Carleton College in Minnesota. After graduating, she worked a number of marketing and communications jobs in Minneapolis and Seattle before deciding to return to her first love, fiction writing. Accordingly, she moved to New York to pursue a Master's in fiction at Columbia University. She now lives near San Francisco with her husband and daughter.