New Podcast: Dreidels on the Brain by Joel Ben Izzy

New Podcast: Dreidels on the Brain by Joel Ben Izzy

The newest episode of The Book of Life podcast, hosted by librarian Heidi Rabinowitz, features an interview with storyteller Joel Ben Izzy about his middle grade novel Dreidels on the Brain.

One lousy miracle. Is that too much to ask?

Evidently so for Joel, as he tries to survive Hannukah, 1971 in the suburbs of the suburbs of Los Angeles (or, as he calls it, “The Land of Shriveled Dreams”). That’s no small task when you’re a “seriously funny-looking” twelve-year-old magician who dreams of being his own superhero: Normalman. And Joel’s a long way from that as the only Jew at Bixby School, where his attempts to make himself disappear fail spectacularly. Home is no better, with a family that’s not just mortifyingly embarrassing but flat-out broke.

You can hear the podcast online at: https://jewishbooks.blogspot.com/2016/12/storyteller-joel-ben-izzy-branches-out.html.

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