Description: "Echoes of Isaac Bashevis Singer, Sholom Aleichem and S.Y. Agnon sound throughout this high-concept collection's engaging stories.Unusual and charming stories that successfully revive a nearly forgotten form of storytelling. One hopes we will hear more of these Lamedh-Vov and their all-too-human struggles and triumphs."- Kirkus Reviews "These charming stories, told with authorityyet oddly delicate and wholly delightfulare enchanting. To read them is to become transfixed with that long-forgotten childhood wonder. One feels in the hands of a masterful and magical storyteller." Elizabeth Strout, author ofOlive Kitteridge "In his fantastic and fantastical collection, Jonathon Keats creates an original and captivating world of surprise where scoundrels are saints and dreams descend on villages like rain. There's mystery and magic on every page, and a deeply inspiring humanity at the heart of every fable. Finally, a writer who understands that adults need fairy tales as much, if not more, than children." -- Bret Anthony Johnston, author ofCorpus Christi: Stories, and director of the creative writing program at Harvard University "The Book of the Unknownis based on ancient Jewish lore and set in pre-modern Eastern Europe. Add Jonathon Keats' 21st-century American sensibility, and the result is a delightful and provocative brewone of a kind." --Janet Hadda, author ofIsaac Bashevis Singer: A Life, and Professor of Yiddish Emerita at UCLA "The Book of the Unknownearns Jonathon Keats a place in line with Rabbi Nahman of Bratslav and Isaac Bashevis Singer. In language at once phantasmagorical, seductive, and reverent, Keats imagines the preposterous misadventures of people who are so holy they are unknown even to themselves. And, in so doing, he reopens the Jewish folk imaginationand our own." -- Lawrence Kushner, author ofKabbalah: A Love Story, and The Emanu-El Scholar at Congregation Emanu-El of San Francisco From the Trade Paperback edition.

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