Odessa, Odessa

Working with Quatrain Public Relations to secure tour bookings, reviews and content in national print and online media. • Outreach to existing media and author contacts on both coasts. . • Book launch party in San Francisco. . • Targeted Northern and Southern California appearances at bookstores, Jewish organizations and associations, and private homes for book clubs and author salons. . • Targeted San Francisco Bay Area–focused West Coast book tour, including Los Angeles, San Francisco, San Mateo, and Berkeley, and multiple Jewish community organizations. . • Promotion via social media, including Facebook and Goodreads. .

A novel of unforgettable characters about two brothers who emigrate out of Russia to escape anti-Semitism—one to America and one to Israel—Odessa, Odessa gives readers a great story for our time: a younger generation discovering their lost heritage and reuniting a family.Odessa, Odessa follows the families of two sons from a proud lineage of rabbis and cantors in a shtetl near Odessa in western Russia. It begins as Henya, wife of Rabbi Mendel Kolopsky, considers an unexpected pregnancy and the hardships ahead for the children she already has. Soon after the child is born, Cossacks ransack the Kolopskys’ home, severely beating Mendel. In the aftermath, he tells Henya that, contrary to his brother Shimshon’s belief that socialism is their ticket to escaping the region’s brutal anti-Semitic pogroms, he still believes America holds the answer. Henya, meanwhile, understands that any future will be perilous: she now knows their baby daughter, who has slept through this night of melee, is surely deaf. So begins a beautifully told story that unfolds over decades of the 20th century—a story in which two families, joined in tradition and parted during persecution, will remain bound by their fateful decision to leave Odessa.