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In Ashkenazi Jewish folklore, a golem is a humanoid being created out of mud or clay and animated through secret prayers. Its sole purpose is to defend the Jewish people against the immediate threat of violence. It is always a rabbi who makes a golem, and always in a time of crisis. But Len Bronstein is no rabbi—he’s a Brooklyn art teacher who steals a large quantity of clay from his school, gets extremely stoned, and manages to bring his creation to life despite knowing little about Judaism and even less about golems.

L'America vista dagli occhi di una giovane irlandese che emigra in cerca del suo posto nel mondo. 1952. Trovare lavoro a Enniscorthy, nel Sud-Est del-l'Irlanda, semina solo frustrazione e desiderio di un benessere che non c'è. La giovane Eilis Lacey, prigioniera del confronto quotidiano con la madre e la sorella Rose, non ha davanti a sé alcuna prospettiva, finché la visita di un prete emigrato, padre Flood, le fa intravedere l'opportunità di un'esistenza migliore, al di là dell'oceano, a New York.

The story begins with Brooklyn Pierce witnessing the attempted assassination of her father, Governor Sage Pierce. Detective Song Kai, assigned to the case, becomes ensnared in a perceived web of political conspiracies. As the investigation continues, Song struggles with painful memories of his wife’s death and the intensifying feelings he has for Brooklyn. He soon faces a moral quandary; shield the woman he loves or reveal the dark secrets of her father’s past.

After midnight, Thelma Lorber enters her brother Abie’s hangout under the Williamsburg Bridge, finding Jewish mobster Louis “Pretty” Amberg in a puddle of blood on the kitchen floor. She could flee. Instead, in the dark hours of that October 1935 night before the dawn of Murder, Inc., she remains beside the fierce, funny brother who has protected her since childhood. There are many kinds of love a woman can feel for a man, but few compare to that of the baby sister for her older brother. For Thelma, a wild widow tethered to a young son, Abie is the center of her world.

Briarhill to Brooklyn is a work of creative nonfiction, in which I tell the story of my Irish family’s journey from County Galway on a coffin ship named Cushlamachree. Their destination was Brooklyn.

Joshua Eubanks and Paul Sims moved to Brooklyn, for very different reasons. Joshua, a young black man, came with his single mother to escape the crime and despair of Bedford-Stuyvesant. Paul left his life of privilege in Long Island to study Judaism with the Hasidic Lubavitch movement. They live in two different worlds separated by a few city blocks, but their hearts both yearn for Rachel Weissman who is torn between her aspiration to become a doctor and her obligation to the restrictions of her religion.

The themes of shared experience, the relationship of human beings to one another throughout time, and the ultimate power of place are explored in this poem by one of the most revered American poets, Walt Whitman. Its setting of NYC is dear to narrator Diane Havens, a native New Yorker, a Brooklynite.