Title: Jacob's folly
Description: Jacob is a Jewish peddler living in eighteenth-century France; Leslie and Deirdre Senzatimore are a settled American couple; and Masha is an alluring young ultra-Orthodox Jew who is gravely ill. In Jacob's Folly, these four individuals will find their fates intertwined and the courses of their lives irrevocably altered when Jacob is reincarnated as a house fly in contemporary Long Island.
Subjects: Reincarnation, Peddlers, Flies, Jews, Fiction, Fiction, general
Places: New York (State), Long Island, Long Island (N.Y.)