J. Dylan Yates
ebook | Pages: 226 pages Rating: 4.12 | 130 Users | 59 Reviews
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| Original Title: | The Belief in Angels ISBN13 9780996382502 |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Setting: | Withensea, Massachusetts(United States) |
| Literary Awards: | Independent Publisher Book Award (IPPY) for Young Adult Fiction (2015), USA Best Book Award for Cross Genre Fiction (2014), Kindle Book Award Nominee for Young Adult (Semi-Finalist) (2015), Los Angeles Book Festival Nominee for Wild Card (Honorable Mention) (2014), National Indie Excellence Awards Nominee for Literary Fiction (Finalist) (2015) |
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Growing up in her parents' crazy hippie household on a tiny island off the coast of Boston, Jules's imaginative sense of humor is the weapon she wields as a defense against the chaos of her family's household. Somewhere between routine discipline with horsewhips, gun-waving gambling debt collectors, and LSD-laced breakfast cereal adventures, tragedy strikes a blow from which Jules may never recover.Jules's story alternates with that of her grandfather, Szaja, an Orthodox Jew who survives the murderous Ukranian pogroms of the 1920s, the Majdanek death camp, and the torpedoing of the Mefkura, a ship carrying refugees to Palestine. Unable to deal with the horrors he endures at the camp, Szaja develops a dissociative disorder and takes on the persona of a dead soldier from a burial ditch, using that man's thoughts to devise a plan to escape to America.
While Szaja's and Jules's sorrows are different on the surface, adversity requires them both to find the will to live despite the suffering in their lives--and both encounter, in their darkest moments, what could be explained as serendipity or divine intervention. For Jules and Szaja, these experiences offer the hope they need to come to the rescue of their own fractured lives.
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| Title | : | THE BELIEF IN Angels |
| Author | : | J. Dylan Yates |
| Book Format | : | ebook |
| Book Edition | : | Author's Cut |
| Pages | : | Pages: 226 pages |
| Published | : | March 27th 2015 by Chenery Press |
| Categories | : | New Adult. Literary Fiction. Young Adult. Fiction. Drama. Contemporary. Coming Of Age |
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Ratings: 4.12 From 130 Users | 59 ReviewsNotice About Books THE BELIEF IN Angels
Deeply Moving Coming of Age StoryAuthor J. Dylan Yates has done an amazing job in this unique coming of age tale - The Belief in Angels. A compelling, yet haunting family saga. Raw, emotional and at times harrowing, The Belief in Angels shares the story of a young girls triumph over abuse, surviving yet dealing with issues that at times break her, but will ultimately make her stronger. Truly inspiring, emotional read. Highly Recommended!!!I received this book in exchange for my honest opinion.This book is about Jules and her grandfather Szaja. Both are telling their stories: Jules in the 70's and her granfather in the 20's. Jules is living in a very disturbed and dysfunctional environment with her parents. Between her parents there is violence, gambling, drugs and a lot of beating and to escape her imagination to bring some happy moments.Szaja who in the 20's, witnessed unimaginable terror, violence and was too much that he
I had the pleasure of attending a reading by the author who shared that writing this book gave her the opportunity to create a part of her life that was missing: grandparents. She did a masterful job of bringing to vivid life the grandfather in the story: Szaja, an orthodox Jew who survived the Ukrainian pogroms of the 20s along with other horrors in his journey to the United States. The author alternates his story with that of his granddaughter Jules, who is trying to survive her own horrors
I'm a little surprised this is the debut novel for J. Dylan Yates. In her book The Belief in Angels, Yates proves to be a wonderful storyteller and weaver of human emotion. This is an engaging story about how far the human spirit can go to survive trauma and what brings healing and growth. It shows the effects that neglect, abuse, and death can have as well as the power of one caring and present person. The theme of trauma between generations and how is can strangle a family stayed with me. This
The Belief in Angels covers the expanse of human travails through writing that is skilled and beautiful. I was as moved by the story as by the authors choice of words. Compelling and at times riveting, the book walks the reader through life in a dysfunctional family to the choices a child must make to salvage meaning and dignity.
Initial reaction: This book took me through the emotional gauntlet and back again. Very well written and presented. Probably my chief complaint for the work was that sometimes the pacing slowed it down, but it was beautifully written. The characters aren't always easy to like, but the motivations and development here? Awesome. Hopefully I can expand upon this in the full review.Full review:Oh my word, this was the best book I've read in a while. Seriously, I don't say that lightly. I think I had
Here are two entwined stories about coping with survivor's guilt. Teenage Jules (aka Julianne) and her grandfather Sam (aka Szaja) have come through personal ordeals, she with a brilliant but abusive mother, and he through the persecutions of eastern Europe in WWII. The cruelties visited on him were more overt and violent, but the psychological terror Jules must endure is just as real and emotionally damaging. Yates artfully crafts this book through meticulous detail crafted from the often
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