Last Tower to Heaven by Jacob Paul

Last Tower to Heaven by Jacob Paul

Fiction. Jewish Studies. Days before his thirty-third birthday, Jacob Paul, an ordinary New Yorker, learns that his life is the dream of a man being slowly gassed in the back of a box truck headed from the Chelmno extermination camp to a mass grave in the Polish woods. Thus begins a 500-page, 18-years-long, Quixotic, often comic, picaresque. J's adventures lead him to Chase, his fellow traveler and love interest, and to Art, Chase's husband, the evangelical governor of Mexico, who enlists J to build a new kind of Holocaust museum next to the Creationist Museum outside Cincinnati, a Holocaust museum that Art and his evangelical backers hope will finally show Jews as they really were. Yid World, which ends up being a Lithuanian-shtetl theme park, is obviously a failure, as, seemingly, are all of J's attempts to connect to his awesome and awful legacy, until finally, J embarks on one last epic attempt to build the means by which to confront his dreamer. LAST TOWER TO HEAVEN grapples with what it means to derive agency and identity from collective trauma, with what it means to be at once a dream of the Holocaust and, yet, messily alive in our world. Ultimately, that struggle forces J to learn how to build a story out of love, for his love.

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ISBN 13	9781949540024
ISBN 10	1949540022
Title	Last Tower to Heaven
Author	Jacob Paul
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	C&r Press
Year published	2019-11-01
Number of pages	426
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