EAN: 9781335402509

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Winner of the 2022 Sydney Taylor Book Award for Young Adult 2022 World Fantasy Award for Best Novel finalist 2021 National Jewish Book Award finalist A Lambda Literary Award finalist 2021 Bram Stoker Award Preliminary Ballot for Young Adult Novels A New York Public Library Best Book for Teens 2021 An achingly rendered exploration of queer desire grief and the inexorable scars of the past. -Katy Rose Pool author of There Will Come A Darkness Death lurks around every corner in this unforgettable Jewish historical fantasy about a city a boy and the shadows of the past that bind them both together. Chicago 1893. For Alter Rosen this is the land of opportunity and he dreams of the day he'll have enough money to bring his mother and sisters to America freeing them from the oppression they face in his native Romania. But when Alter's best friend Yakov becomes the latest victim in a long line of murdered Jewish boys his dream begins to slip away. While the rest of the city is busy celebrating the World's Fair Alter is now living a nightmare: possessed by Yakov's dybbuk he is plunged into a world of corruption and deceit and thrown back into the arms of a dangerous boy from his past. A boy who means more to Alter than anyone knows. Now with only days to spare until the dybbuk takes over Alter's body completely the two boys must race to track down the killer-before the killer claims them next. Chillingly sinister warmly familiar and breathtakingly transportive The City Beautiful is the haunting queer Jewish historical thriller of my darkest dreams.-Dahlia Adler creator of LGBTQreads and editor of That Way Madness Lies

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