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Golem of Brooklyn Paperback Book

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Captivating urban fantasy novel
Unique take on mythology
Page-turning literary fiction
Award-winning author's latest work
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The dazzlingly imaginative, ferociously funny story of an art teacher, a bodega clerk, and a fivethousandyearold clay crisis monster, from the author of the #1 New York Times bestseller Go the Fk to Sleep.A devastating romp through history, a bonkersroad trip through America, this novelcould not be any funnieror anymore important.W. Kamau BellIn Ashkenazi Jewish folklore, a golem is a humanoid being created out of mud or clay and animated through secret prayers. Its sole purpose is to defend the Jewish people against the immediate threat of violence. It is always a rabbi who makes a golem, and always in a time of crisis.But Len Bronstein is no rabbihes a Brooklyn art teacher who steals a large quantity of clay from his school, gets extremely stoned, and manages to bring his creation to life despite knowing little about Judaism and even less about golems. Unable to communicate with his ninefootsix, four hundredpound, Yiddishspeaking guest, Len enlists a bodega clerk and exHasid named Miri Apfelbaum to translate.Eventually, The Golem learns English by bingewatching Curb Your Enthusiasm after ingesting a massive amount of LSD and reveals that he is a creature with an ancestral memory he recalls every previous iteration of himself, making The Golem a repository of Jewish history and trauma. He demands to know what crisis has prompted his recreation and whom must he destroy. When Miri shows him a video of white nationalists marching and chanting Jews will not replace us, the...

SKU: M9780593729823
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Binding: Paperback;224 pages; Publisher: Random House USA Inc; Classification: FA; Weight: 356 g; Dimensions: 133 x 204 x 22

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