The Golem and the Jinni by Helene Wecker blends historical fiction and mythic fantasy in 1899 New York City, where two supernatural outsiders struggle to survive among immigrant communities. Chava, a golem secretly fashioned from clay by a renegade r…
The Golem and the Jinni by Helene Wecker blends historical fiction and mythic fantasy in 1899 New York City, where two supernatural outsiders struggle to survive among immigrant communities. Chava, a golem secretly fashioned from clay by a renegade rabbi, finds herself masterless and disoriented after her creator’s client dies en route from Poland. Ahmad, a jinni forged from fire in the Syrian desert, is released from an ancient copper flask into a modern world that still binds him in unexpected ways. As their paths cross, the novel follows their uneasy friendship, their attempts to conceal their true natures, and the quiet romance that develops between two beings caught between human society and their own inhuman origins.
The Golem and the Jinni by Helene Wecker blends historical fiction and mythic fantasy in 1899 New York City, where two supernatural outsiders struggle to survive among immigrant communities. Chava, a golem secretly fashioned from clay by a renegade r…
The Golem and the Jinni by Helene Wecker blends historical fiction and mythic fantasy in 1899 New York City, where two supernatural outsiders struggle to survive among immigrant communities. Chava, a golem secretly fashioned from clay by a renegade rabbi, finds herself masterless and disoriented after her creator’s client dies en route from Poland. Ahmad, a jinni forged from fire in the Syrian desert, is released from an ancient copper flask into a modern world that still binds him in unexpected ways. As their paths cross, the novel follows their uneasy friendship, their attempts to conceal their true natures, and the quiet romance that develops between two beings caught between human society and their own inhuman origins.
