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Join Bookshop Santa Cruz as they present a reading, signing, and audience Q&A with author Helene Wecker, who will present debut novel, The Golem and the Jinni. Combining elements of Jewish and Arab folk mythology, The Golem and the Jinni takes place in 1899 and tells the story of two supernatural creatures: a golem created out of clay in Poland by an aged dabbler in the dark Kabbalistic arts to be the wife of a man who then dies at sea, leaving her unmoored and adrift as the ship comes into New York harbor; and a jinni, a being of fire, who is trapped by a Bedouin wizard in a copper flask and released accidentally by a Syrian tinsmith in Lower Manhattan.
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