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* National Jewish Book Award Winner * Green Mountain Book Award Nominee * Sydney Taylor Book Award Winner *

In this thrilling paranormal YA romance debut steeped in folklore, two estries-owl-shifting female vampires from Jewish tradition-face New York's monstrous underworld to save the girl one of them loves with help…

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1 author picked Night Owls as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?

This is a novel that I wish had been available when I was a teen, when YA books for Jewish teens were mostly sad Holocaust tales. Important books, but not always what a teen wants to read. Night Owls instead is a wonderful, romantic vampire story that draws heavily on Jewish folklore, both Ashkenazi (Eastern European) and Middle Eastern (Syrian). At its core it's a love letter to Yiddish theater on New York's 2nd Avenue, an art that peaked in the early 20th century and produced stars who went on to mainstream theater and film.

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