Elizabeth Graver, Kantika

JCCNS 4 Community Rd., Marblehead, MA

Winner of the 2024 Massachusetts Book Award for fiction, Kantika – “song” in Ladino – is a kaleidoscopic portrait of one family’s displacement across four countries and follows the joys and losses […]

Alyson Richman, The Time Keepers

Tedesco Country Club 154 Tedesco Street, Marblehead, MA, United States

An unforgettable novel that captures the power of longing, loss, and love, The Time Keepers transports us from 1979 suburban New York to war-torn Vietnam, revealing that sometimes the most unexpected friendships […]

Dr. Sara Glass, Kissing Girls on Shabbat

JCCNS 4 Community Rd., Marblehead, MA

Growing up in the Hasidic community of Brooklyn’s Borough Park, Sara Glass knew one painful truth: what was expected of her and what she desperately wanted were impossibly opposed. Tormented […]