From Dust, a Flame
From Dust, a Flame by Rebecca Podos is a contemporary Jewish fantasy published by HarperCollins Publishers in 2022. This 416-page novel follows Hannah, whose life has been a constant journey with her brother Gabe and their mother, leaving behind a series of transient homes and relationships. On her seventeenth birthday, Hannah undergoes a startling transformation, awakening with golden eyes and a series of inexplicable mutations. When their mother departs in search of help, Hannah and Gabe are left to uncover the truth behind their family’s mysterious past.
Readers will find a narrative that intertwines themes of family, love, and the power of stories amidst a backdrop of fantasy and magic. As Hannah delves into her family’s history, she discovers connections to her grandmother’s childhood in Prague during the Nazi occupation and the rich tapestry of Jewish mysticism. The journey reveals not only the secrets of her lineage but also the challenges she must face to break a curse that threatens her loved ones and herself. This edition offers a compelling exploration of coming-of-age and the bonds that hold us together in times of uncertainty.
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Rebecca Podos, Lambda Award-winning author of Like Water, returns with a contemporary Jewish fantasy of enduring love, unfathomable loss, and the power of stories to hold us together when it seems that nothing else can.
Hannah’s whole life has been spent in motion. Her mother has kept her and her brother, Gabe, on the road for as long as she can remember, leaving a trail of rental homes and faded relationships behind them. No roots, no family but one another, and no explanations.
All that changes on Hannah’s seventeenth birthday when she wakes up transformed, a pair of golden eyes with knife-slit pupils blinking back at her from the mirror–the first of many such impossible mutations. Promising that she knows someone who can help, her mother leaves Hannah and Gabe behind to find a cure. But as the days turn to weeks and their mother doesn’t return, they realize it’s up to them to find the truth.
What they discover is a family they never knew and a history more tragic and fantastical than Hannah could have dreamed–one that stretches back to her grandmother’s childhood in Prague under the Nazi occupation, and beyond, into the realm of Jewish mysticism and legend. As the past comes crashing into the present, Hannah must hurry to unearth their family’s secrets in order to break the curse and save the people she loves most, as well as herself.
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