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"Richly nuanced and beautiful. . . . An immersive and magical tale of loneliness, love, and finding hope.” — BuzzfeedIn this enthralling historical epic, set in New York City and the Middle East in the years leading to World War I— the long-awaited follow-up to the acclaimed New York Times bestseller The Golem and the Jinni—Helene Wecker revisits her beloved characters Chava and Ahmad as they confront unexpected new challenges in a rapidly changing human world.Chava is a golem, a woman made of clay, who can hear the thoughts and longings of those around her and feels compelled by her nature to help them. Ahmad is a jinni, a restless creature of fire, once free to roam the desert but now imprisoned in the shape of a man. Fearing they’ll be exposed as monsters, these magical beings hide their true selves and try to pass as human—just two more immigrants in the bustling world of 1900s Manhattan. Brought together under calamitous circumstances, their lives are now entwined—but they’re not yet certain of what they mean to each other.Both Chava and Ahmad have changed the lives of the people around them. Park Avenue heiress Sophia Winston, whose brief encounter with Ahmad left her with a strange illness that makes her shiver with cold, travels to the Middle East to seek a cure. There she meets Dima, a tempestuous female jinni who’s been banished from her tribe. Back in New York, in a tenement on the Lower East Side, a little girl named Kreindel helps her rabbi father build a golem they name Yossele—not knowing that she’s about to be sent to an orphanage uptown, where the hulking Yossele will become her only friend and protector.Spanning the tumultuous years from the turn of the twentieth century to the beginning of World War I, The Hidden Palace follows these lives and others as they collide and interleave. Can Chava and Ahmad find their places in the human world while remaining true to each other? Or will their opposing natures and desires eventually tear them apart—especially once they encounter, thrillingly, other beings like themselves?

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I read The Golem and the Jinni when it came out and have again since. I don't remember every detail, but I can never forget how it gave me the feeling of dwelling in an an entire and completely realized world, one that felt rich with historical details but also intimate and outside of time, one I was sad to leave. Chava and Ahmad were greenhorns in 1900 New York, and the novel was both a slow-burn love story and an immigrant tale of learning to adapt and fit in. The narrator was omniscient and a little at arm's length. There were other story lines and secondary characters, but the focus was firmly on golem and jinni.The Golem and the Jinni didn't end on a cliffhanger -- fortunate for the reader waiting eight years for this continuation, but not offering an obvious sequel path for the writer. And sequels/continuations are harder than they appear. Since they already have characters and a world, they seem like they should be easier than than starting anew. But they need to explain things to people who never read the first volume yet not bore those who know it very well. They need to create the experience that readers loved the first time, but do more than just repeat it. And this case, there's the weight of thousands of readers' expectations.What soon becomes apparent is how differently time is handled here. The books are the same length, roughly 480 pages, but The Hidden Palace covers about 15 years, a much greater span of time than G&J. The action ranges beyond Little Syria and the Lower East Side: to Morningside Heights, to Brooklyn and most excitingly to the Ottoman Empire.Also, there's more people, some with only a tenuous connection to Chava or Ahmad, doing stuff of their own, including, spoiler alert, constructing a golem in their tenement apartment (as one does). There is more History: the Odessa pogroms of 1905 get a mention, as does the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire. We meet Lawrence of Arabia before he was famous, and Gertrude Bell when she already was. The sinking of the Titanic and the Lusitania both move the plot forward. And we see the city itself changing before the eyes of its residents, as the Manhattan Bridge is built, the first skyscrapers spring up, cars start replacing horses, women start demanding the vote.So the feeling of The Hidden Palace was very different for me from The Golem and the Jinni: less cozy, but no less compelling. Chava and Ahmad were less at the center of the action, as their differences drove them apart, and they began to pursue divergent paths in this new New York, though events will bring them back together.The plot is a thing of wonder, as the different story lines start to converge in ways both logical and surprising, and there are many delights along the way. I particularly enjoyed the stubborn orphan Kreindel, the wisecracking bicycle messenger Toby, and that Chava managed to put herself through college and become a teacher of Home Economics, which seems both absurd and completely right.Will there be a third installment? It almost seems like...maybe?
It’s been eight years since Helene Wecker’s The Golem and the Jinni, a wondrous, beautiful work of fiction that took a simple concept – in New York City near the beginning of the 20th century, a golem comes to live among humans in the Jewish quarter, while a jinni freed from centuries of captivity hides in the Syrian neighborhood – and turned it into something special: a tale about immigrants, about culture wars, about unlikely friends, about Jewish mysticism, about revenge and love and friendship and kindness and much more. It’s something truly special to me, finding something wonderful in the pairing of a creature who is made to serve and one who never wants to serve again, and exploring that both in terms fantastical and deeply grounded. In short, it’s basically a perfect book, one that works excellently on its own…but then, Wecker announced that she had a sequel coming…and who was I to turn down a return trip to this amazing world?The Hidden Palace picks up almost immediately after the end of the first novel (indeed, if you, like me, haven’t read it since its original release, I’d recommend a revisiting before you start this one – while Wecker adds some recapping, this definitely feels like it’s intended almost as a direct follow-up, and works better when all of that is fresh in your mind), as the jinni Ahmad returns home from his travels and the golem Chava awaits him back home. But as the book opens, a rabbi in the neighborhood stumbles across the notes left behind by Chava’s former “keeper,” and realizes what they might mean; simultaneously, back in Ahmad’s homeland, a female jinni hears about the legend of the traveling jinni bound by iron who traveled across oceans, and decides to make her way towards him.If that sounds like the plot here is far more complicated than its predecessor, that’s undeniably true – and I haven’t even touched on a variety of other storylines here, including a young boy’s memories of the climax of the previous book, a standoffish orphan girl with a secret, Ahmad’s prickly relationship with his business partner, Chava’s growing realizations about her own nature and how it will affect her life – oh, and did I mention a slew of historical events, from the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire to the sinking of the Titanic? Yeah, there’s a lot going on in The Hidden Palace, and to some degree, it’s to the book’s detriment; while The Golem and the Jinni was remarkably tight and focused despite all of its scope (and even tighter than it first looked, given the final revelations), The Hidden Palace struggles a bit more to keep itself together, sometimes forcing its threads together a little inelegantly, or using history in a way that sometimes feels less organic and more like the quick cultural tourism of Forrest Gump. (This goes less for the fire and more for the sinking ship, for what it’s worth.)Nonetheless, the plot never gets so dense that Wecker loses focus on her characters – and given how many she’s juggling, that’s incredibly impressive. Wecker is dealing with a wide swath of people and locations, charting them over a much longer period of time than the first book (nearly 15 years), and the way she brings them all to life is never less than wondrous – humane, complex, rich, and detailed. It’s easy to lose yourself in the early 20th century New York that Wecker brings to life here – you can almost smell the scents from Chava’s Jewish bakery, or feel the heat from Ahmad’s furnace as he works on his intricate arts.Which brings us back to our golem and our jinni. If the first novel used them as a way of exploring the lives of American immigrants of the time, The Hidden Palace expands on that, watching as both go from outsiders looking i to individuals who want so much more from their lives. Chava finds herself more and more aware of how women are treated in the society. Ahmad sees the flaws in the American experiment and struggles to reconcile his independence with a need for community. What began as an exploration of newcomers to the country becomes a quest for an identity that’s more than just their ethnicity and origins. But even with all of that heavy symbolic lifting to do, Chava and Ahmad work as people – as characters we genuinely care about. As they evolve, as they are emotionally wounded, as they find friendships or love or satisfaction or fear, it’s impossible not to become invested in what happens next. What’s more, Wecker manages the complicated feat of making them believable characters not in spite of their natures, but because of them – while Chava and Ahmad are always understandable, it’s also always evident how their natures have shaped them and affected how they’ve turned out.The Hidden Palace isn’t quite as good as The Golem and the Jinni – it’s bigger, more sprawling, and more ambitious, and that sometimes means it’s lacking some of the focus and purity that the original could bring together. But with that being said, it’s still a more than worthy sequel to the book, delivering us back into that incredible world and allowing ourselves to be lost in it, catching up with these characters and seeing how their lives evolved after the book ended. And even when you think you’ve seen what Wecker can do, she delivers something new – an oddly beautiful meeting between two kindred spirits in a basement, the careful rekindling of an old friendship, the pain of a damaged community. If you loved The Golem and the Jinni – and you did, right? – The Hidden Palace is a no-brainer. If it’s bigger and lumpier, well, it’s still no less full of magic, wonder, and richness to be found.

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