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THE MYSTICS OF MILE END Sigal Samuel Paperback; 320 pages Publisher: William Morrow Paperbacks (October 13, 2015) ISBN-10: 0062412175 ISBN-13: 978-0062412171 also on Kindle It took a while to "get into" this book. Set in Montreal, Canada in a Jewish neighborhood, the story follows a widowed fath...
The Myer family lives in Montreal’s Mile End neighborhood. The neighborhood is mostly made up of Hasidic Jews and a few random Hipsters. Father, David is a professor of Jewish Mysticism, but no longer believes since the passing of his wife. Samara, is thirteen and secretly planning her bat mitvah...
It’s not often that a man’s children rebel against him by turning to religion. It’s usually the other way around, at least the way most literary fiction. Yet, that’s what happens to David Meyer. After his wife’s death in a car accident, David became resolutely atheist. His son, Lev, and his daughter...