Mourning and Celebration: Jewish, Orthodox and Gay, Past and Present
by K. David Brody
Price: $9.00 USD. 71020 words.
Published on June 29, 2010. Fiction.
Have you ever wondered how life would have been, had you been born one hundred years earlier? Mourning and Celebration is how author K. David Brody answers that question.
Yankl lives in a 19th-century Polish shtetl. And he’s gay.
Location: Canada
Member Since: June 29, 2010
K. David Brody
Biography
K. David Brody was born in London, UK. His grandparents immigrated to London from Rypin, Poland early in the 20th century and his parents were practicing Orthodox Jews. He graduated from Edinburgh University, Scotland, subsequently moving to Montreal, Canada, He worked initially at Société Radio-Canada, the French division of CBC, then moved to Jerusalem for two years in the 1980s. Although that experience was enriching from several points of view, it was there that he first felt truly Canadian. On returning to Montreal, he worked as a freelance translator from French to English. He continues to be an Orthodox Jew and participates actively in the Jewish community. Mourning and Celebration is his first novel.