num_pages: 327
description: Brooklyn, 1947. The war veterans have come home. Jackie Robinson is about to become a Dodger. And in one close-knit working-class neighborhood, an eleven-year-old Irish Catholic boy named Michael Devlin has just made friends with a lonely rabbi from Prague.Snow in August is the story of that unlikely friendship -- and of how the neighborhood reacts to it. For Michael, the rabbi opens a window to ancient learning and lore that rival anything in Captain Marvel. For the rabbi, Michael illuminates the everyday mysteries of America, including the strange language of baseball. But like their hero Jackie Robinson, neither can entirely escape from the swirling prejudices of the time. Terrorized by a local gang of anti-Semitic Irish toughs, Michael and the rabbi are caught in an escalating spiral of hate for which there's only one way out -- a miracle....
language: English
title: Snow in August
titlecomplete: Snow in August
genres: Fiction, Historical, Magical Realism, Coming Of Age, Jewish, Adult, Novels, New York, Historical Fiction, Fantasy
ratings_count: 6790
places: Park Slope, Brooklyn, New York, Brooklyn, New York City, New York
awards: awardedAt: 883641600000
name: ALA Alex Award, awardedAt: 1072944000000
name: Long Island Reads
publisher: Little Brown & Co