"Why would a group of religious yeshiva students want to commit a crime as devastating as 9/11? Who by Fire, Who by Blood answers this provocative question, and then some! It is a sharp-eyed, riveting mystery story in which Papernick takes the reader along the razor’s edge that is the cross-over between religious zealotry — Yiddishkeit — and political rationality. Controversial and totally believable!" —David Sobelman, Writer/Producer of the highly acclaimed McLuhan’s Wake
Matthew Stone, the alienated grandson of a Jewish trigger man for Murder Incorporated, discovers that his father — a dishonored N.Y. judge — has not only been a supporter of the extreme right wing in Israel, but he has kept a secret bank account to support pro-Israeli terrorist activities. And it is how to access the mysterious truths inherent in the bank account that constitutes the core of this fast-driving novel. Through thoughtful characterization, Jon Papernick defines the terrifying distinctions that have to be drawn between faith and zealotry, distinctions that in the end are morally devastating.
A hair-raising and suspense-filled novel by "an utterly original writer whose work bristles with the energy needed to make fiction out of human conflict and need." –The Globe and Mail
"There is a muscular certainty to ... Papernick’s penetrating, clear-sighted stories." –Noah Richler, New York Times
"A writer of enormous talent, originality, and wit ... with a personal intensity, a condensed fury, a simmering rage, that leaves the reader stunned and stirred. This is master writing by a wonderful talent." –Moment Magazine
"Papernick joins a handful of young writers such as Nathan Englander, Dara Horn, and Jonathan Safran Foer who have been steadily redefining not only the range but also the very substance of contemporary Jewish writing." –Hadassah Magazine

AWHO BY FIRE, WHO BY BLOOD - Jon Papernick
Fiction/Novel • 6x9 • 360 pages
978-1-55096-102-7
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