Am Hasefer: Feb 9, 2010

POSTPONED: NEW DATE TO BE ANNOUNCED SHORTLY

February 9, 2010   7:45 p.m.  BOOK REVIEW:  Dara Horn  All Other Nights  W.W. Norton, 2009  Presented by the author;

On Passover, 1862, Jacob Rappaport, a Jewish soldier in the Union army, is ordered to murder his own uncle in New Orleans, who is plotting to assassinate President Lincoln.  What follows is Dara Horn’s gripping and masterful epic about great moral struggles of the Civil War, as seen through the eyes of a Jewish family with loyalty to both sides.

Dara Horn, named one of the Best Young American Novelists by Branta

Magazine, was the winner of the 2006 National Jewish Book Award for Fiction. Her last novel, The World To Come, was praised as “compelling and luxuriously layered” (L.A. Times) and “Rich, complex and haunting” (The New York Review of Books) and nothing short of amazing” (Entertainment Weekly).