Böcker av Stephanie Feldman

Unfolding during a city-wide solstice celebration in a near-future Philadelphia, Saturnalia is a story about environmental collapse and class warfare, trauma and rebirth, and magic - the extraordinary, ancient magic of alchemy, and the ordinary, timeless magic of bravery and forgiveness....

Now in paperback, the inventive, lushly imagined debut novel?reminiscent of The Tiger's Wife and The History of Love?that explores the intersections of family secrets, Jewish myths, the legacy of war and history, and the bonds between sisters Sisters Marjorie and Holly are best friends?until Holly converts to a mysterious Jewish sect and marries a controlling man Marjorie despises. When Holly announces she's expecting her first child, Marjorie fears that she's lost her sister forever.But then Marjorie discovers their late grandfather Eli's notebook and its tale about a wizard named the White Rebbe and his struggle against the Angel of Losses, protector of the lost letter of the alphabet, which completes the secret name of God. Everything Marjorie thought she knew about her family comes undone. To learn the truth, she embarks on an odyssey that will lead her deep into the past and back to the present?and finally to her estranged sister, Holly, whom she must save from the consequences of Eli's secrets.Interweaving history, theology, and both real and imagined Jewish folktales, The Angel of Losses is a family story of what lasts, and of what we can?and cannot?escape.

The editors and contributors to Who Will Speak for America? are passionate and justifiably angry voices providing a literary response to today''s political crisis.  Inspired by and drawing from the work of writers who participated in nationwide Writers Resist events in January 2017, this volume provides a collection of poems, stories, essays, and cartoons that wrestle with the meaning of America and American identity. The contributions—from established figures including Eileen Myles, Melissa Febos, Jericho Brown, and Madeleine Thien, as well as rising new voices, such as Carmen Maria Machado, Ganzeer, and Liana Finck—confront a country beset by racial injustice, poverty, misogyny, and violence. Contributions reflect on the terror of the first days after the 2016 Presidential election, but range well beyond it to interrogate the past and imagine possible American futures. Who Will Speak for America? inspires readers by emphasizing the power of patience, organizing, resilience and community. These moving works advance the conversation the American colonists began, and that generations of activists, in their efforts to perfect our union, have elevated and amplified.All royalties will benefit the Southern Poverty Law Center.