Jacob's Folly
By Rebecca Miller.
Description
Jacob is a Jewish peddler living in eighteenth-century France; Leslie and Deirdre Senzatimore are a settled American couple; and Masha is an alluring young ultra-Orthodox Jew who is gravely ill. In Jacob’s Folly, these four individuals will find their fates intertwined and the courses of their lives irrevocably altered when Jacob is reincarnated as a house fly in contemporary Long Island.Through the unique lens of Jacob’s consciousness, Miller explores transformation in all its guises—personal, spiritual and literal. As she considers the hold of the past on the present, the powe...
ISBN(s)
1443418269, 9781443418263
