Night Owls
A.R. Vishny
HarperCollins
Clara wanted to fly. But, she was going to have to marry an abusive man against her will. So, when she was given the opportunity to fly and be free, she took it.
A hundred years later, she and her sister, Molly, are running a theater in the Jewish section of New York City. They have some rules, and they've followed them for one hundred years. But then, Boaz, a boy who can see the dead, comes to work with them and the rules slowly start to crumble. Depsite their better judgement, they will all have to work together to solve their problems.
Content Warnings: violence, murder, death, homophobia
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https://www.arvishny.com/
A.R. Vishny was born and raised in Massachusetts, but now calls New York City home. Her essays on Jewish representation in pop culture have appeared in Teen Vogue, The Washington Post, and Hey Alma. She earned a B.A. in English at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, and a J.D. at the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law, where she was a Law and Literature fellow. Her debut novel, Night Owls won the National Jewish Book Award and Sydney Taylor Book Award. When she’s not writing she’s at the theater, or else hunting for the perfect slice of cheesecake.
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