Book description
* 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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Why read it?
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.
Clara and Molly (once…
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