A Bintel Brief: Love and Longing in Old New York by Liana Finck
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Liana Finck’s new graphic novel A Bintel Brief blends history and imagination to create an experience that is rich, immersive, and satisfying. It begins when a young woman receives a notebook from her grandmother filled with clips of advice columns from the premiere Yiddish-language newspaper The Forward. When she opens the notebook Abraham Cahan himself, editor of the paper and its Miss Lonelyhearts, steps out to take the narrator on an emotional tour of the past.
A Bintel Brief: Love and Longing in Old New York by Liana Finck