"Chillingly sinister, warmly familiar, and breathtakingly transportive, The City Beautiful is the haunting, queer Jewish historical thriller of my darkest dreams." -Dahlia Adler, creator of LGBTQreads and editor of That Way Madness Lies Now, with only days to spare until the dybbuk takes over Alter's body completely, the two boys must race to track down the killer-before the killer claims them next. A boy who means more to Alter than anyone knows. While the rest of the city is busy celebrating the World's Fair, Alter is now living a nightmare: possessed by Yakov's dybbuk, he is plunged into a world of corruption and deceit, and thrown back into the arms of a dangerous boy from his past. For Alter Rosen, this is the land of opportunity, and he dreams of the day he'll have enough money to bring his mother and sisters to America, freeing them from the oppression they face in his native Romania.īut when Alter's best friend, Yakov, becomes the latest victim in a long line of murdered Jewish boys, his dream begins to slip away. "An achingly rendered exploration of queer desire, grief, and the inexorable scars of the past." -Katy Rose Pool, author of There Will Come A Darknessĭeath lurks around every corner in this unforgettable Jewish historical fantasy about a city, a boy, and the shadows of the past that bind them both together.Ĭhicago, 1893. Winner of the 2022 Sydney Taylor Book Award for Young AdultĢ022 World Fantasy Award for Best Novel finalistĢ021 Bram Stoker Award Preliminary Ballot for Young Adult NovelsĪ New York Public Library Best Book for Teens 2021
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Joseph’s Mission were allowed home only for two months in the summer and for two weeks at Christmas. Like Native children forced by law to attend schools across Canada and the United States, Sellars and other students of St. She tells of hunger, forced labour, and physical beatings, often with a leather strap, and also of the demand for conformity in a culturally alien institution where children were confined and denigrated for failure to be White and Roman Catholic. Joseph’s Mission at Williams Lake, BC, Sellars tells of three generations of women who attended the school, interweaving the personal histories of her grandmother and her mother with her own. The first full-length memoir to be published out of St. The trauma of these experiences has reverberated throughout her life. In addition, beginning at the age of five, Sellars was isolated for two years at Coqualeetza Indian Turberculosis Hospital in Sardis, British Columbia, nearly six hours’ drive from home. Xat’sull Chief Bev Sellars spent her childhood in a church-run residential school whose aim it was to civilize” Native children through Christian teachings, forced separation from family and culture, and discipline.
If that wasn’t bad enough, his father’s friends abandoned his family and elevated themselves as chiefs in Temujin’s place. Temujin left to find a wife and returned to find that a gang of Tartars had raided his home and murdered his family. The Conqueror series begins with the journey of Genghis, a warlord that left his mark on history.īefore he won wars and found his place in history alongside the likes of Julius Caesar, Genghis was just Temujin, the son of a chief of a small wandering tribe. The books were hailed not only for their historical accuracy but also Conn’s narrative voice which treated Julius’ tale like any other fictional story and made as raw and intriguing and engaging as possible.Īs such, Conn’s announcement that he would switch gears and throw a spotlight on the Mongol empire was naturally met with enthusiasm. By the time Conn wrote the Conqueror series, he had already garnered a reputation for his highly popular Empire series which explored the life of Julius Caesar. in theater from New York University's Tisch School of the Arts, Susanne eventually came to the conclusion that, as an actor, she was quite a good writer, and that sending out manuscripts to editors and agents was still easier on the nerves than going to auditions. After studying acting and singing, and earning a B.F.A. Susanne grew up in Massachusetts and New York City. Albrecht (author of Deborah Remembers, The Spinning Wheel Secret, and three other historicals, all now available for Kindle), Susanne Alleyn definitely doesn’t write for children, unless, like her, they have found guillotines, high drama, and the French Revolution fascinating since the age of ten or so. The granddaughter of children’s author Lillie V. 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