Publisher's Synopsis
- Besserman is author of several classics on the Kabbalah including The Shambhala Guide to Kabbalah and Jewish Mysticism
- Offers behind-the-scenes look at contemporary Hasidism and Kabbalah; Based loosely on the Berg's-the Kabbalah teachers of Madonna and other celebrities
- Recipient of the Theodore Hoepfner Fiction Award; Pushcart Prize-nominee; Besserman was praised by Isaac Bashevis Singer for the "clarity and feeling for mystic lore" of her writing; Short fiction has appeared in The Southern Humanities Review, AGNI, Transatlantic Review, Nebraska Review, Southerly, North American Review, and Bamboo Ridge.
- Novels centered on Jewish mysticism, such as The Bee Season, can have strong appeal; the contemporary Jewish life of the Hasidim is largely unexamined in novels.
