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BOOKS / CHILDREN Here Comes the Sun
IN THIS DARKLY MAGICAL FAIRY TALE, the children of a town awake to discover that both the sun and their parents have disappeared. They band together to search for the sun, and walk the streets of the gauzy, dreamlike Nighttime City, encountering strange creatures and neon-lit zoos, new smells and sounds, but no sun. Eventually, one brave girl sug- gests, if the sun is nowhere to be found, they may have to create one them-
selves. The book is written by a co-founder of Ayin Press, Tom Haviv, and illustrated by the celebrated visual artist Jessica Tamar Deutsch, best known for her beloved The Illustrated Pirkei Avot ; The Lost Prin- cess , a retelling of a classic Rebbi Nachman of Breslov story; and many Jewish zines. Zachary Kauffman
HOW THE SUN WAS WON Tom Haviv and Jessica Tamar Deutsch Ayin Press March 3
THIS IS THE THIRD BOOK by the Toronto- based poet. Her last one, 2020’s Nautilus and Bone , took the form of an “auto/biography” of Yiddish-language feminist poet Anna Mar- golin, and became the first poetry book to win both top prizes at the Canadian Jewish Literary Awards and US-based National Jewish Book Awards. In Sublunary , themes in Richter’s pre- vious work, like memory, grief, and absence, re-emerge—this time woven in with referenc- es to mythology and Jewish folklore. Always POETRY Joy, Grief, Repeat
BOOKS / CHILDREN Smells Like Home
THE YIDDISH-SPEAKING Garlic Eat- ers exist blissfully in an allium-based utopia. They live underground in a gar- lic-bulb house, busy themselves with garlic- centric tasks, dress in garlic skins through the day, and snuggle into garlic cloves to sleep through the night. They are, as the young people say, living their best life. That is, until a rather large mole forces the Gar- lic Eaters to bolt (forgive me, dear reader) from their pungent abode, and the family must begin the journey to find
present: the struggles of holding life’s strangeness alongside its joyful and bewildering elements. Jonathan Rothman
SUBLUNARY Lisa Richter University of Alberta Press March 10
a new home and community that can accept them and their favourite food just as they are. Readers absorb Yiddish vocabulary, lessons about alien- ation, and messages about staying true to yourself along the way. Zachary Kauffman
THE GARLIC EATERS Madison Safer Ayin Press March 17
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