The Convert
Five Stories and A Novella
$32.04
- Paperback
224 pages
- Release Date
22 December 2026
Summary
A new story collection from the razor-sharp wit of Tova Reich, who was described by Jonathan Safran Foer as “fearless, hysterically funny, and with the sharpest eye for truth and falsity… a brilliant writer.”
The searing and hilarious satire of Tova Reich knows no boundaries. Here in this story collection, she explores end-of-life truths and surprises, daring to make sense of the dilemma of the meaning of Jewishness in a world that is drowning in violence. In “Managed Care,” a beloved…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781644215814 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1644215810 |
| Author: | Tova Reich |
| Publisher: | Seven Stories Press,U.S. |
| Imprint: | Seven Stories Press,U.S. |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 224 |
| Release Date: | 22 December 2026 |
| Weight: | 369g |
| Dimensions: | 140mm x 210mm |
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Critics Review
“Tova Reich’s voice is a tornado that overturns the landscape and the language of everything it touches. Her literary daring has no equal.”—Cynthia Ozick
“A ferociously funny book, The Convert is a scalpel of satire that slices through sanctimony and self-deception. Pitting zeal against appetite, Tova Reich’s marvelous stories unfold as comedies of belief that darken, almost imperceptibly, into tragedies of conscience.”—Benjamin Balint, author of Kafka’s Last Trial
Tova Reich
TOVA REICH is the author of the novels Mara, Master of the Return, The Jewish War, My Holocaust, One Hundred Philistine Foreskins, and Mother India, which was longlisted for the South Asian Literature Prize and a finalist for the National Jewish Book Award. Her most recent novel is Camp Jeff, which Booklist called “an audacious and righteous torrent of wisecracks and ironies that coheres into a whirlwind of ‘divine apocalyptic madness.’” Her stories have appeared in The Atlantic, Harper’s, Ploughshares, and in her collection The House of Love and Prayer. She lives on the fringe of Washington DC.
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