Violence haunts 1915 Atlanta and so does the golem a group of girls creates
A dark, lyrical blend of historical fiction and magical realism, The Curators examines a critically underexplored event in American history through unlikely eyes. On the Jewish south side of Atlanta in 1915, in the days after the lynching of Leo Frank, fourteen-year-old Ana Wulff and her friends are keeping Frank’s story alive through any means possible. Indeed, the girls are so obsessed with the two-year-long Frank case that they build a golem in his image, using dirt from Ana’s garden. But when their seemingly innocent game gets out of hand, they, as the golem’s creators, must decide what their responsibility requires of them.
- ISBN10 0810147327
- ISBN13 9780810147324
- Publish Date 15 June 2024
- Publish Status Forthcoming
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Northwestern University Press
- Format Paperback (US Trade)
- Pages 296
- Language English