![]() ![]() And they both become friends with Rose, who still smarts from a betrayal: her beautiful best friend married another. ![]() The angel, afforded substance by the name on its papers, becomes Uriel its always companion, Little Ash, becomes Asher. Each for their own reasons: they resolve to rescue her.īefore they board their ship, the demon eats one soul while the angel helps another. One day, they raise their heads and learn that Essie, a shtetl daughter, has disappeared in America. Pogroms graduate into even darker territory. In a shtetl too small to warrant its own name, an angel and a demon argue Talmud together, wrapping themselves in the comfort of each other’s minds. Sacha Lamb’s When the Angels Left the Old Country is a luminescent novel about two incidental supernatural emigres. ![]()
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