{"product_id":"odessa","title":"Odessa","description":"\n\u003ctable align=\"center\" border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"2\" cellspacing=\"0\" width=\"100%\"\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd class=\"productDetailSmallElements\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eReview Quotes\u003c\/strong\u003e:\u003cbr\u003e\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\"Sher sets her spellbinding debut in 1905 Odessa, where pogroms have torn apart the Jewish community. . . Sher's straightforward prose packs a punch and she doesn't shy away from the realities of Jewish oppression, balancing the novel's more gruesome elements with the palpable love that bonds the community together. The result is a tender and gutting showstopper.\"-- \n\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublishers Weekly, Starred Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eBiographical Note\u003c\/strong\u003e:\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eGabrielle Sher\u003c\/b\u003e attended Hamilton College, where she earned the Rosenfeld Chapbook Prize for her novella \n\u003ci\u003eBowerbird\u003c\/i\u003e. She received her MFA and PhD in Creative Writing from the University of St. Andrews in Scotland. Her first novel, \n\u003ci\u003eOdessa, \u003c\/i\u003eoriginated as part of her doctoral dissertation titled \"Who Made Us Monsters? Narrative Psychology and The Female Jewish Gothic.\" She currently lives and writes in New Jersey with her husband Jamie and their dog Bo. \n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eReview Quotes\u003c\/strong\u003e:\u003cbr\u003e\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\"A bold investigation of the costs of violence and complex aftermath of possessive grief. Gabrielle Sher stitches together myth and legend across traditions and time in startling, memorable, and moving ways.\" -- \n\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eElizabeth Graver, author of Kantika\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eReview Quotes\u003c\/strong\u003e:\u003cbr\u003e\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\" \n\u003ci\u003eOdessa\u003c\/i\u003e is a triumph. Gabrielle Sher has given us, at once, a classic monster tale, a heartbreakingly relevant historical drama, a pulse-poundingly contemporary descent into horror, a timeless parable about the porous boundaries between atrocity and self-defense, and above all, a powerful reclamation of agency. Count me in for whatever Sher writes next.\"-- \n\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eNat Cassidy, author of When the Wolf Comes Home\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eReview Quotes\u003c\/strong\u003e:\u003cbr\u003e\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\" \n\u003ci\u003eOdessa\u003c\/i\u003e is wonderfully strange, marvelously frightening, and authentically moving. Gabrielle Sher's powerful tale of terrible wrong and terrifying consequences manages both to surprise and hit all the right chilling notes.\"-- \n\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eLaird Hunt, author of the National Book Award nominated Zorrie\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eReview Quotes\u003c\/strong\u003e:\u003cbr\u003e\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\" \n\u003ci\u003eOdessa\u003c\/i\u003e is a breathtaking debut novel. Sher's prose is quietly devastating and so beautiful that, like Yetta, I found myself split in half by the aching depths of a family's grief and their struggle to reconcile with loss.\"-- \n\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eMonika Kim, author of The Eyes Are the Best Part\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eReview Quotes\u003c\/strong\u003e:\u003cbr\u003e\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\"I did not have 'lush Jewish gothic horror novel' on my 2026 bingo card, and now I can't imagine my life without it. \n\u003ci\u003eOdessa \u003c\/i\u003eis resplendent and unputdownable.\"-- \n\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eRuth Madievsky, author of All-Night Pharmacy\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eReview Quotes\u003c\/strong\u003e:\u003cbr\u003e\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\"With rich use of language and a deep exploration of horrors from both history and Jewish folklore, this story will engage readers who loved other blends of history and folklore, such as \n\u003ci\u003eThe World That We Knew\u003c\/i\u003e by Alice Hoffman, or historical horror with a sharp view to the terror in history, such as \n\u003ci\u003eThe Buffalo Hunter Hunter \u003c\/i\u003eby Stephen Graham Jones.\" \n\u003cbr\u003e -- \n\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eLibrary Journal, Starred Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eReview Quotes\u003c\/strong\u003e:\u003cbr\u003e\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\"In a stunning debut focused on grief and identity, Sher delivers an instant modern classic. . . Lyrical and haunting with a nearly palpable ache at its core, \n\u003ci\u003eOdessa \u003c\/i\u003eis a quiet horror, laying bare a comparison of real-life evils with supernatural ones. Its fear lingers long after the story is complete.\" \n\u003cbr\u003e -- \n\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eBooklist, Starred Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eReview Quotes\u003c\/strong\u003e:\u003cbr\u003e\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\"A com­pelling and intro­spec­tive Jew­ish goth­ic novel.\" \n\u003cbr\u003e -- \n\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eJewish Book Council\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublisher Marketing\u003c\/strong\u003e:\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eIn a powerfully imagined Russia at the height of the pogroms, a grief-stricken family turn to ancient magic to bring their daughter back from the grave. \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \"A triumph.\"―Nat Cassidy, author of \u003ci\u003eMary \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eWhen the Wolf Comes Home\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cb\u003e\"Spellbinding. . . A tender and gutting showstopper.\"―\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e, Starred Review\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Yetta is a bright, quick teenage girl with a wild, searching spirit. Stifled by her mother's anxiety, her father's rules, and the path that's been laid out for her, she craves freedom, the edges of which she doesn't know. But her family has reason to be cautious and restrictive. Fear has wrapped itself around their shtetl. Jews are mysteriously disappearing, and there are whispers of an impending attack. When violence comes to their door, Yetta is killed. \n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Her father, in his grief, fumbles through his nascent knowledge of ancient texts and old magic to bring her back. By some miracle, Yetta is returned--but although she looks the same, she is not the girl she once was. Yetta senses there is a secret her family is keeping from her. The answer resides, in part, in the creature lurking in the woods beyond the shtetl―something that may be of her father's making, and a being that has plans of its own. \n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cb\u003e\"Breathtaking.\"― Monika Kim, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Eyes are the Best Part\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \"Wonderfully strange, marvelously frightening, and authentically moving.\"― Laird Hunt, author of \u003ci\u003eZorrie\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eReview Citations:\u003c\/strong\u003e\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cspan class=\"italic\"\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/span\u003e 02\/02\/2026 (EAN 9780316595858, Hardcover) - *Starred Review\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cspan class=\"italic\"\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/span\u003e 02\/06\/2026 pg. 1 (EAN 9780316595858, Hardcover) - *Starred Review\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cspan class=\"italic\"\u003eBooklist\u003c\/span\u003e 03\/01\/2026 (EAN 9780316595858, Hardcover) - *Starred Review\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cspan class=\"italic\"\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/span\u003e 03\/15\/2026 (EAN 9780316595858, Hardcover)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\n\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003c\/table\u003e\n","brand":"Little Brown and Company","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51496089420054,"sku":"9780316595858","price":34.8,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0857\/9910\/8886\/files\/9780316595858.jpg?v=1783052968","url":"https:\/\/lusper.myshopify.com\/products\/odessa","provider":"Lusperbooks","version":"1.0","type":"link"}