Highly recommend spending time to read this book. It's one of those books you can read over and over. I am so glad this wasn't one of those books that you have to keep buying the next one and so on. It's a great gift to give someone.

This book is so very different from the sort of thing that I usually read, thrillers. At first I wasn't too sure about it. but it grabs you as you get familiar with the characters. Ms. Wecker seems to be to be a good writer and she surely is a real good storyteller. This book will stay with me. some I forget as I finish them. If she follows this up with another effort I will be sure to give it a go.

Sounds like a setup for a bad joke: "a Golem and a Jinni walk into a bar...." In actuality, this debut novel by Helene Wecker is an amazing tale. Set deep within the immigrant experience of 1900s New York City, this dazzling historical novel introduces us to two supernatural creatures who find themselves adift in the New World - a Jinni freed from an imprisonment that was several hundreds of years old, his powers limited by an iron shackle, and a Golem, created as a substitute wife, but who's master dies just as she's created. They search to find their own identities, and in the process, find out what makes them... human. This is a supernatural story but Wecker's literary, elegant prose - and keen historical details - create a world that even the most jaded reader will fall in love with. An excellent read for those who like the works of Neil Gaiman or those who loved Erin Morgenstern's THE NIGHT CIRCUS.

This book is best described by the description on the inside flap of the cover. "Marvelous and compulsively readable. The Golem and the Jinni weaves strands of folk mythology, historical fiction, and magical fable into a wondrously inventive and unforgettable tale." This book had a wonderful sense of time and place with an involved and intriguing story.