Sender Pleskin is a self-proclaimed trauma specialist dedicated to serving his Chassidic community and to ‘gently’ nudging it into modernity. When a Bubmer Hasid child falls inexplicably into a coma, Sender and his team jump to action. Hunting down leads in his investigation, Sender follows the signs that he interprets to be Divine Providence as they lead them down a circuitous path that will test not only his faith, but all he was and is.

Through this fast-paced novel, replete with kidnappings, espionage and fugitive war criminals, Abraham Boyarsky captures the Chassidic communities, their lives and their voices.

ABRAHAM BOYARSKY is the author of several novels including "Schielber" (1982) for which he was awarded the Canadian League of Poets' Gerald Lambert Memorial Award; "The Number Hall" (winner of the Toronto Jewish Literary Prize, 1992), "The Ratcatcher" (2006, Oberon Press), "A Gift of Rags" (2015, Lester Publishing); a number of short stories including the collection "A Pyramid of Time"; and several seminal books on mathematics. His most recent novel, "Through Shadows Slow" won the national CJLA 2020 award for best work of fiction. He currently lives in Montreal where he teaches mathematics at Concordia University.

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