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Marc Koralnik |
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THE MYSTICS OF MILE END
Reminiscent of "The History of Love" by Nicole Krauss and "Bee Season" by Myla Goldberg, this debut novel weaves together four distinct voices to tell the story of a dysfunctional family with a dangerous mystical obsession.
Eleven-year-old Lev Meyer has never been so confused in his life. At home, his sister Samara gets nervous whenever their dad is around. In school, his friend Alex is writing a diary in code. And around the block in Montreal's Mile End neighborhood, crazy Mr. Katz is trying to recreate the biblical Tree of Knowledge out of plucked leaves, toilet paper rolls, and dental floss.
When David Meyer, Lev's father and a professor of Jewish mysticism, is diagnosed with an unusual heart murmur, his world is turned upside down. Convinced his heart is whispering divine secrets, he pushes his body to the limit to hear the message buried in the tissue. But when his frenzied attempt to ascend the Tree of Life leads to tragedy, Samara believes it is up to her to finish what he started, while Lev breaks with the Hasidic tradition. It falls to next-door neighbor and Holocaust survivor Chaim Glassman to shatter the silence that divides the members of the Meyer family and pull them back from the brink of madness.
Sigal Samuel, a writer and editor for The Jewish Daily Forward, has published fiction and journalism in The Daily Beast, The Rumpus, BuzzFeed, Tablet, The Walrus, Event, Descant, Grain, Prairie Fire, Room, and This Magazine, among others. She has been a featured writer at the Blue Metropolis International Literary Festival and a winner of Room's writing contest. Her plays have been produced in Montreal, Vancouver and New York City, winning Solo Collective Theater's Emerging Playwrights' Competition and The Cultch's Young Playwrights' Competition. While pursuing her MFA in creative writing at the University of British Columbia, Sigal won the Laura Fowler Award for outstanding women in the fine arts. She received the Lionel Shapiro Award and the Chester Macnaghten Prize for creative writing from McGill University. Originally from Montreal, she now lives and writes in Brooklyn
When David Meyer, Lev's father and a professor of Jewish mysticism, is diagnosed with an unusual heart murmur, his world is turned upside down. Convinced his heart is whispering divine secrets, he pushes his body to the limit to hear the message buried in the tissue. But when his frenzied attempt to ascend the Tree of Life leads to tragedy, Samara believes it is up to her to finish what he started, while Lev breaks with the Hasidic tradition. It falls to next-door neighbor and Holocaust survivor Chaim Glassman to shatter the silence that divides the members of the Meyer family and pull them back from the brink of madness.
Sigal Samuel, a writer and editor for The Jewish Daily Forward, has published fiction and journalism in The Daily Beast, The Rumpus, BuzzFeed, Tablet, The Walrus, Event, Descant, Grain, Prairie Fire, Room, and This Magazine, among others. She has been a featured writer at the Blue Metropolis International Literary Festival and a winner of Room's writing contest. Her plays have been produced in Montreal, Vancouver and New York City, winning Solo Collective Theater's Emerging Playwrights' Competition and The Cultch's Young Playwrights' Competition. While pursuing her MFA in creative writing at the University of British Columbia, Sigal won the Laura Fowler Award for outstanding women in the fine arts. She received the Lionel Shapiro Award and the Chester Macnaghten Prize for creative writing from McGill University. Originally from Montreal, she now lives and writes in Brooklyn
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