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Jonathan Rabb is one of my favorite writers, a highly gifted, heart-wise storyteller if ever there was one. What a powerful, moving book. David McCullough, Pulitzer Prize and National Book Awardwinning author A moving novel about a Holocaust survivors unconventional journey back to a new normal in 1940s Savannah, Georgia #160; In late summer 1947, thirty-one-year-old Yitzhak Goldah, a camp survivor, arrives in Savannah to live with his only remaining relatives. They are Abe and Pearl Jesler, older, childless, and an integral part of the thriving Jewish community that has been in Georgia since the founding of the colony. There, Yitzhak discovers a fractured world, where Reform and Conservative Jews live separate lives--distinctions, to him, that are meaningless given what he has been through. He further complicates things when, much to the Jeslers' dismay, he falls in love with Eva, a young widow within the Reform community. When a woman from Yitzhak's past suddenly appears--one who is even more shattered than he is--Yitzhak must choose between a dark and tortured familiarity and the promise of a bright new life. #160;#160;#160;#160; Set amid the backdrop of America's postwar south,

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Author

Rabb, Jonathan

Publisher

Other Press, LLC

Published

2016

Language

EN

ISBN

9781590518038

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Fiction, Literary Fiction, History

Rating

3.76 / 5 (335 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14