This month, the Blue Elephant Book Group will be reading A Blessing on the Moon by Joseph Skibell. All store purchases of this book are 10% off until the meeting!

The Blue Elephant Book Group meets at the store on the second Wednesday of every month. Come for this month's discussion at 7PM on Wednesday, May 11, 2011. Anyone is welcome to join us!

Joseph Skibell

A Blessing on the Moon

At the center of A Blessing on the Moon is Chaim Skibelski. Death is merely the beginning of Chaim's troubles. In the opening pages, he is shot along with the other Jews of his small Polish village. But instead of resting peacefully in the World to Come, Chaim, for reasons unclear to him, is left to wander the earth, accompanied by his rabbi, who has taken the form of a talking crow. Chaim's afterlife journey is filled with extraordinary encounters whose consequences are far greater than he realizes.

Not since Art Spiegelman's Maus has a work so powerfully evoked one of the darkest moments of the twentieth century with such daring originality.