In the Image A Novel [Paperback]

[T]old with moral passion, vigor, humor, and an unflagging fascination with the coincidences, miseries, grotesqueries, and triumphs of life.Not merely a striking success as a whole but a technical tour de force.A stunning example of how to thread the warp of Jewish history into the woof of contemporary American Jewish life.An ebullient and vibrant new voice.Horn creates small worlds, beautifully detailed and textured, that ultimately fit together.Rivetingcompulsive reading, authoritative from the first sentence. A fine book from a powerful new imagination.Starred Review. An enchanting, introspective and emotionally charged debut.[An] unsettling, otherworldly novel.Incredibly poignant ... with audacious appropriation of lines and themes from Jewish texts.... [Horn is] a writer with great self-confidence.Impressive...remarkable...All of the characters struggle for those gemlike qualities of passion, brilliance, clarity, fire.It is a novel that seems flooded with godly light. Jay Parini, author ofThis is a lovely book that will give pleasure to many readers, and it signals the beginning of an interesting career.[I]t may be the most ambitious and accomplished first novel I have ever read.A gripping story told with learning and passion. It does not just use Jewish sources, it breathes them, and breathes into them the breath of life.A tender and touching story of vanished worlds and recovered lives.A young woman's coming of age, a romantic love story, and a spiritual journeyeach infused with the lessons of history.