Odessa (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780316608022)

In a powerfully imagined Russia at the height of the pogroms, a grief-stricken family turns to ancient magic to bring their daughter back from the grave.

"A triumph. . . Count me in for whatever Sher writes next."― Nat Cassidy, author of Mary and When the Wolf Comes Home

Yetta is a bright, quick teenage girl with a wild, searching spirit. Stifled by her mother's anxiety, her father's rules, and the path that's been laid out for her, she craves a freedom whose edges she doesn't know. But her family has reason to be cautious and restrictive. Fear has wrapped itself around their shtetl. Jews are mysteriously disappearing, and there are whispers of an impending Gentile attack. When violence comes to their door, Yetta is killed.

Her father, in his grief, fumbles through his nascent knowledge of ancient texts and old magic to bring her back. By some miracle, Yetta is returned--but although she looks the same, Yetta is not the girl she once was. She knows there is a secret her family is keeping from her. The answer resides, in part, in the creature stalking the villagers and their enemies, lurking in the woods beyond the shtetl, something that may be of her father's making, and a being that has plans of its own.

Author: Gabrielle Sher
ISBN-10: 0316608025
ISBN-13: 9780316608022
Publisher: Little Brown and Company
Language: English
Published: 04/21/2026
Pages: 352
Format: Paperback
Large Print