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Put this Apocalyptic Fantasy Novel on your Summer Reading List
An eminent rabbi dies, confounding his acolytes, who believed him to be the messiah. So they steal skin cells from his hospital bedsheets and clone him, hoping to keep their vision alive. As if through a divine practical joke, the clone turns out to be a girl. This is the premise of "The Cabalist's Daughter," an apocalyptic fantasy novel by Yori Yanover.
Part comedian, part social theorist and part religious gadfly, Yanover knows the contemporary link between apocalyptic beliefs and American politics. In this novel, he writes and talks about it from the perspective of both religious prophecy and a novelist’s speculation on character and social importance.
"The Cabalist’s Daughter" has been described as "A wildly-fun fantastical Jewish ‘Hitchhiker's Guide to the Universe.’" (Laurie Gwen Shapiro, author of "The Matzo Ball Heiress") and "A rip roaring read! It's Tom Clancy meets Chabad meets feminism. I loved it."(Judith Abrams, author of "Talmud for Beginners").
Yanover has been an entertainer for the Israeli army, taxi driver, journalist, radio producer and the first Jewish blogger. He is publisher of The Grand Street News, a monthly print magazine serving his neighborhood, New York’s Lower East Side. This is his first work of fiction. His other books include "Dancing and Crying," a behind-the-scenes look at the Lubavitch Hasidic movement, published in Hebrew in 1994, and co-author (with Larry Yudelson) of "How Would God Really Vote: A Jewish Rebuttal to David Klinghoffer's Conservative Polemic" (2008).
Since publishing "The Cabalist’s Daughter," his first novel, in 2008, Yanover has been in demand at readings and panels where inquiring people want to know about the battle between messianic and non-religious world views that are continually challenging and shaping Washington and Main Street.
Yanover read from his novel April 28 at the Jewish open mic of Mima’amakim, a poetry-journal-grown-large and nucleus for a community of artists at the Stanton Street Synagogue, 180 Stanton Street. Blogger Matthue Roth wrote, "Mr. Yanover is just as large and funny and unhinged in real life as he is on the page -- and even more Douglas Adams-dik -- and so all was good on the Lower East Side."
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