num_pages: 400
description: In the year 1947, Michael Devlin, eleven years old and 100 percent American-Irish, is about to forge an extraordinary bond with a refugee of war named Rabbi Judah Hirsch. Standing united against a common enemy, they will summon from ancient sources a power in desperately short supply in modern Brooklyn-a force that's forgotten by most of the world but is known to believers as magic.
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: 6789
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: Vision