Description: Bill Landsmann, an elderly Jewish refugee in a New Jersey suburb, collects images from the Bible that he finds scattered throughout the world. The novel begins when he crosses paths with his granddaughter's friend, Leora, revealing the unexpected links between his family's past and her family's future.
Brief description: Dara Horn is the author of five novels and was one of Granta's Best Young American Novelists. She has taught Jewish literature at Harvard, Sarah Lawrence College, and Yeshiva University. She lives in New Jersey with her family.
Review Quotes: [T]old with moral passion, vigor, humor, and an unflagging fascination with the coincidences, miseries, grotesqueries, and triumphs of life.--Richard Snow "American Heritage"