In a glorious debut, a thirteen-year-old boy confronts queer lust, shame, the threat of wars and the plague of family on the day he becomes a man
At a banquet hall in Israel, at the onset of war, Adam Weizmann’s bar mitzvah party turns into a glorious catastrophe. On the cusp of manhood—and the verge of a nervous breakdown—Adam braces for his special day mired in family neuroses and national dysfunction.
In a chorus of voices, a fractious cast of well-wishers narrates Adam’s coming of age: his newly devout father, with a past of mystic rituals he practiced on his son; his best friend, Abbie, who points the way to joyful transgression; Khalil, a Palestinian poet, who offers a glimpse of a different way to be; and Adam himself, filled with shame and desire as he faces the brokenness of his world.
At once tender and lustful, a work of scathing satire and piercing insight, Mazeltov is a wholly original vision of a young man’s quest to know his own heart.
In a glorious debut, a thirteen-year-old boy confronts queer lust, shame, the threat of wars and the plague of family on the day he becomes a man
At a banquet hall in Israel, at the onset of war, Adam Weizmann’s bar mitzvah party turns into a glorious catastrophe. On the cusp of manhood—and the verge of a nervous breakdown—Adam braces for his special day mired in family neuroses and national dysfunction.
In a chorus of voices, a fractious cast of well-wishers narrates Adam’s coming of age: his newly devout father, with a past of mystic rituals he practiced on his son; his best friend, Abbie, who points the way to joyful transgression; Khalil, a Palestinian poet, who offers a glimpse of a different way to be; and Adam himself, filled with shame and desire as he faces the brokenness of his world.
At once tender and lustful, a work of scathing satire and piercing insight, Mazeltov is a wholly original vision of a young man’s quest to know his own heart.
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Product Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781250345264 |
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| Publisher: | Holt, Henry & Company, Inc. |
| Publication date: | 02/11/2025 |
| Sold by: | Macmillan |
| Format: | eBook |
| Pages: | 208 |