Advance Praise

Mazel
Rebecca Goldstein

"Shimmering with humor and intelligence."
—New Yorker

"From the first lines of Goldstein’s enchanting novel Mazel . . . comes a voice redolent of matzoh balls and Schopenhauer, feeding body and spirit."
—Village Voice

"Goldstein has written female characters as worthy of Phillip Roth and Grace Paley as they are of their grand European progenitors, Sholem Aleichem and S. Y. Agnon."
—Los Angeles Times

"A superb storyteller, Goldstein not only brings the almost-vanished world of Eastern European Jewry to life bit also conveys the depth and power of that culture."
—San Francisco Chronicle