Mazeltov (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781250345271)

In a glorious debut, a boy confronts queer lust, shame, the threat of war and the plague of family on the day he becomes a man

At a banquet hall, at the onset of war, Adam Weizmann's bar mitzvah party turns into a glorious catastrophe. On the cusp of manhood--and the verge of a nervous breakdown--Adam braces for his special day, mired in family neuroses and national dysfunction.

In a chorus of voices, a fractious cast of well-wishers narrates Adam's coming-of-age: his newly devout father and the mystic rituals he practiced on his young son; his best friend, Abbie, who points the way to joyful transgression; Khalil, the Palestinian poet, who offers a glimpse of a different way to be; and Adam himself, filled with shame and desire as he faces the brokenness of his world.

At once tender and lustful, a work of scathing satire and piercing insight, Mazeltov is a wholly original vision of a young man's quest to know his own heart.

Author: Eli Zuzovsky
ISBN-10: 1250345278
ISBN-13: 9781250345271
Publisher: Henry Holt & Company
Language: English
Published: 02/11/2025
Pages: 208
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.00lbs
Size: 8.25h x 5.38w x 1.00d

Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 09/09/2024