Rubble Children - Aaron Kreuter: a Published Book Review

The /tƐmz/ Review
Written By Mona Angéline

Rubble Children is a clever collection of seven and a half interwoven stories on the historical trauma inserting itself into the day-to-day life of Jewish youth in Canada.

These artfully overlapping stories are all different, each with its own set of characters, and yet they all converge on the same cultural focal point, the present-day Kol B'Seder community in Toronto. On a more fundamental level, the stories attempt to differentiate Anti-Zionism from antisemitism by overlaying everyday life with complex questions, by mapping cynicism onto appreciation. Throughout the book, the diasporic state of Jewish people around the world, and especially in Canada, is woven into the narrative.

Read more at The /tƐmz/ Review. Out July 2!

Mona Angéline

Mona Angéline is an unapologetically vulnerable writer, reader, book reviewer, artist, athlete, and scientist. She honors the creatively unconventional, the authentically "other". She shares her emotions because the world tends to hide theirs. She is a new writer, but her work was recently accepted in Flash Fiction Magazine, Grand Dame Literary, tiny wren lit, Down in the Dirt Magazine, The Viridian Door, The Machine, Whisky Blot Magazine, and The Academy of Mind and Heart. She loves to review books and has written them for the /tƐmz/ Review, the Ampersand Review, and the Beakful Litblog. Sooner or later she will have to condense this list… Mona is also a regular guest editor for scientific journals although she doesn't use a pen name when her engineering PhD degree is involved. She lives bicoastally in Santa Cruz, California, and in New York and savors life despite, or maybe because of, her significant struggles with chronic illness and mild disability. Learn about her musings at creativerunnings.com. Follow her on Instagram under @creativerunnings and on Twitter at @creativerunning.

https://creativerunnings.com
Previous

Emily Strasser Speaks the Unspeakable
Next

I Need to Scream