Dybbuks. 
 Illegal printing. 
 A genderqueer lesbian with a knife. 
 Set against a backdrop of literary censorship and growing Jewish political consciousness, Sydney Taylor and Stonewall award-winning Sacha Lamb's sophomore novel is a soaring exploration of identity, survival, and ultimately, hope.  
 On the night before her wedding, 17-year-old Sorel leaps from a window and runs away from her life. To keep from being discovered, she takes on the male identity of Isser Jacobs -- but it soon becomes clear that there is a real Isser Jacobs, and people want him dead. Her mistaken identity takes Sorel into the dark underworld of her small city in the Pale of Settlement, where smugglers, forgers, and wicked angels fight for control of the Jewish community. In order to make it out, Sorel must discover who Isser Jacobs really is -- and who she wants to be.

Author: Sacha Lamb
Publisher: Levine Querido
Published: 10/01/2024
Pages: 256
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.15lbs
Size: 9.10h x 6.20w x 0.90d
ISBN: 9781646144563
Age Range: 12-18


Review Citation(s): 
Kirkus Reviews 08/15/2024
Publishers Weekly 08/19/2024
Horn Book Magazine 09/01/2024 pg. 78
Foreword 08/14/2024
School Library Journal 10/01/2024 pg. 82
About the Author
Sacha Lamb is a 2018 Lambda Literary Fellow in young adult fiction, and graduated in Library and Information Science and History from Simmons University. Sacha lives in New England with a miniature dachshund mix named Anzu Bean. Their debut novel, When The Angels Left The Old Country, was named a Printz Honor Book, a Sydney Taylor Award winner and a Stonewall Book Award winner. 
Author residence:  Cambridge, MA