En route to their new life in America, the young man falls sick and dies, and the golem finds herself launched into a world she barely understands. In a European shtetl, a young man pays an old rabbi to create a bride for him - a female golem who will do whatever he says. The book starts with the birth of one of its characters and the rebirth of the other. Both are rare finds in the contemporary book world: elegant, anachronistic stories of magic and miracles in a historical-fiction world more accepting of it than our own, set against a lush narrative voice that’s equally as magical as its characters. It’s going to be hard not to compare Helene Wecker’s first novel, The Golem and the Jinni, to the fantastical (and fantastic) book Jonathan Strange & Mr.
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