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Odessa : a novel / Gabrielle Sher.
Van Pelt Library PS3619.H531 O23 2026
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Sher, Gabrielle, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Jews--Russia--Fiction.
- Jews.
- Pogroms--Fiction.
- Pogroms.
- Daughters--Death--Fiction.
- Daughters.
- Magic--Fiction.
- Magic.
- Resurrection--Fiction.
- Resurrection.
- Horror tales.
- Russia--History--Revolution, 1905-1907--Fiction.
- Russia.
- Odesa (Ukraine)--Fiction.
- Odesa (Ukraine).
- Genre:
- Horror fiction.
- Domestic fiction.
- Historical fiction.
- Physical Description:
- 280 pages ; 22 cm.
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York, NY : Little, Brown & Company 2026.
- Summary:
- "In a powerfully imagined Russia at the height of the pogroms, a grief-stricken family turn to ancient magic to bring their daughter back from the grave."--Amazon.
- "Yetta is a bright, quick teenage girl with a wild, searching spirit. Stifled by her mother's anxiety, her father's rules, and the path that's been laid out for her, she craves the kind of freedom she doesn't know the edges of. But her family has reason to be cautious and restrictive. Fear has wrapped itself around their shtetl. Jews are mysteriously disappearing, and there are whispers of an impending Gentile attack. When violence comes to their door, Yetta is killed. Her father, in his grief, fumbles through his nascent knowledge of ancient texts and old magic to bring her back. By some miracle, Yetta is returned--but although she looks the same, Yetta is not the girl she once was. She knows there is a secret her family is keeping from her. The answer resides, in part, in the monstruous being stalking the villagers and their enemies, lurking in the woods beyond the shtetl, something that may be of her father's making, and a being which has plans of its own." -- Provided by publisher.
- Yetta is a bright, quick teenage girl with a wild, searching spirit. Stifled by her mother's anxiety, her father's rules, and the path that's been laid out for her, she craves the kind of freedom she doesn't know the edges of. But her family has reason to be cautious and restrictive. Fear has wrapped itself around their shtetl. Jews are mysteriously disappearing, and there are whispers of an impending Gentile attack. When violence comes to their door, Yetta is killed. Her father, in his grief, fumbles through his nascent knowledge of ancient texts and old magic to bring her back. By some miracle, Yetta is returned--but although she looks the same, Yetta is not the girl she once was. She knows there is a secret her family is keeping from her. The answer resides, in part, in the monstruous being stalking the villagers and their enemies, lurking in the woods beyond the shtetl, something that may be of her father's making, and a being which has plans of its own.
- ISBN:
- 9780316595858
- 0316595853
- OCLC:
- 1570603202
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