Books by Sacha Lamb
When the Angels Left the Old Country
by Sacha Lamb
🏆 2023 Stonewall Young Adult Book Award
2023 Michael L. Printz Honor Book (for Young Adult Literature)
In a small shtetl in Poland in the early 20th century, an angel and a demon are studying the Talmud together. With opposing roles in the cosmic order but an intimate personal relationship, they embark on a quest to find out what happened to a local girl who has gone missing on the way to the USA. On the journey they meet Rose, whose best friend — the love of her life — has abandoned her to marry a man. An engaging novel with elements of Yiddish literature and folklore and concerned with early 20th century Ashkenazi immigration history, it is also about queer love and the fluid nature of identity, and about what is good and what is wicked.
Interviews where books by Sacha Lamb were recommended
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Lord of the Flies: The Graphic Novel
William Golding, illustrated by Aimée de Jongh -
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Legendary Frybread Drive-In
by Edited by Cynthia Leitich Smith -
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Death in the Jungle
by Candace Fleming -
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Glasgow Boys
by Margaret McDonald -
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Brownstone
Samuel Teer, Mar Julia (illustrator) -
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Rising from the Ashes: Los Angeles, 1992
by Paula Yoo
Award-Winning Books for Teens
Award-Winning Books for Teens
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