Jewish

This highly emotional novel includes two narratives combined in one, commencing in June 1940 in Riga, Latvia.

Surely there are World War II novels that aren’t depressing, but this isn’t one of them.

“Certainly this novel is timely, a reminder of the United States’ inexcusable inhumanity 70 years ago when it cruelly blocked desperate refugees.”

Mischling is a gripping, powerful novel of twin Jewish girls who become victims of the infamous Dr. Josef Mengele’s medical experiments at Auschwitz.

In eastern Persia a couple of millennia ago an earthquake buries a fictional city that legend has it was inhabited by descendants of the ten lost northern tribes of ancient Israel.

The first thing to be said about this intriguing historical novel is that it ranks high among the “must read” list of debut works.