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The Mystics of Mile End
The Mystics of Mile End is a smart, compelling, and, at times, magical read a promising introduction to a young author who might one day be counted among Canada’s finest.
In the early pages of
The Mystics of Mile End, the first of four narrators, eleven-year-old Lev Meyer, quotes the Talmud: “a word is worth one coin but silence is worth two.” It’s an idea that Samuel beautifully deconstructs in her stunning debut Lev’s earnest voice alone earns the author the back-cover comparison to Nicole Krauss’s acclaimed novel
The History of Love.