Font size options
Increase or decrease the font size for this website by clicking on the 'A's.
Contrast options
Choose a color combination to give the most comfortable
contrast.
Skip to main content
Love phenomenal fantasy, dystopian futures, space exploration, and everything in-between? So do we! Join us online through Zoom every month as we discuss a new Fantasy or Science Fiction book.
Meetings take place via Zoom. Registered participants will be emailed meeting information prior to the event starting.
The Golem and the Jinni by Helene Wecker
eBook | eAudiobook | Print | Hoopla
Chava is a golem, a creature made of clay, brought to life by a disgraced rabbi who dabbles in dark Kabbalistic magic, created to be the wife of a man who dies at sea on the voyage from Poland. Chava is unmoored and adrift as the ship arrives in New York harbor in 1899.
Ahmad is a jinni, a being of fire born in the ancient Syrian desert, trapped in an old copper flask, and released in New York City, though still not entirely free.
Ahmad and Chava become unlikely friends and soul mates with a mystical connection. Marvelous and compulsively readable, Helene Wecker's debut novel The Golem and the Jinni weaves strands of Yiddish and Middle Eastern literature, historical fiction and magical fable, into a wondrously inventive and unforgettable tale.
Online Programs from the Toledo Library
