BK Reads
Saturday, October 18, 2014 • 24 Tishrei 5775
12:45 PM - 2:00 PMJoin us at 12:45 p.m. (after Kiddush) in the Red Gables library.
Jacob’s Folly, Rebecca Miller
Jacob’s Folly is an ingenious, saucy book, brimful of sparkling, unexpected characters, that takes on desire, faith, love, acting—and reincarnation. In eighteenth-century Paris, Jacob Cerf is a Jew, a peddler of knives, saltcellars, and snuffboxes. Despite a disastrous teenage marriage, he is determined to raise himself up in life, by whatever means he can. More than two hundred years later, Jacob is amazed to find himself reincarnated as a fly in the Long Island suburbs of twenty-first-century America, his new life twisted in ways he could never have imagined. But even the tiniest of insects can influence the turning of the world, and thanks to his arrival, the lives of a reliable volunteer fireman and a young Orthodox Jewish woman nursing a secret ambition will never be the same. (From Amazon.com)| Share Print Save To My Calendar |
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