I really loved this story about the friendship between a golem and a jinni who meet in turn-of-the-twentieth century New York City. The golem (Chava) is only a few months old (although she was created as an adult woman) when her "master" husband dies on the crossing from Europe to New York, and the jinni (Ahmad) is released from a thousand-year-long confinement in a copper pitcher when Boutros Arbeely, a metalsmith in the Manhattan neighborhood Little Syria tries to repair the pitcher, which had become dented and scratched over the years. Both Chava and Ahmad are trying to hide their true natures, but things get complicated when the man who created Chava decides to relocate to New York.
This is such a well-written book that it's hard to believe that it's a first novel. The plot is well-developed and the characters have a lot of depth. One of the things that I like about it is that it's clearly written for adults, with mostly adult characters, but it's written in a way that's believable and compelling. I really enjoyed it, and am looking forward to reading its sequel, which just came out this year: The Hidden Palace.
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