Abraham Boyarsky
ASIN: B0125WHS6O
Publisher: unknown
Pages: 159
The novel takes place during the winter of 2011 in a Hassidic community in Montreal where Sender Pleskin, a self proclaimed trauma specialist, has been living for many years. His efforts to serve the community and to gently nudge it into modernity results in comic but serious mystery thriller. He lives with his wife who has one leg 6 inches shorter than the other and their 9 children. Sender is a Bubmer Hasid in his early forties, tall and handsome.The novel opens during a blizzard in Montreal, January 2011. Sender's assistant parked his black Escalade ESV on St. Catherine street in front of the Octopussy Club, a strip joint on the fourth floor of a narrow, non-descript brick building. A long lit sign on a nude silhouette stood against the snow and wind over the deserted street below. Sender is searching for clues that might help explain the coma into which a 16 year old boy from the ...