Mazeltov

By Eli Zuzovsky

Book Overview

In a glorious debut, a boy confronts queer lust, shame, the threat of war, and the plague of family on the day he becomes a man

At a banquet hall, 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 has been bracing 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 in Israel: his newly devout father and the mystic rituals he practiced on his young 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.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1250345278
• ISBN13: 9781250345271
• Release Date: February 2025
• Publisher: Henry Holt & Company
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.8" x 8.4"