The Forbidden Book

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Why Read This?The one-sentence sell. What do you get for showing up to this book, even when it's hard?

A propulsive, richly textured sophomore novel from the Stonewall Award-winning author of When the Angels Left the Old Country. Sorel is a genderqueer lesbian protagonist who flees her arranged marriage, takes on a male identity, and stumbles into a dangerous underworld of smugglers, forgers, and wicked angels. The exploration of gender dysphoria and bodily autonomy through the lens of Jewish folklore (dybbuks, possession) is genuinely original.