When a ten year-old Jewish boy is exploded on a Jerusalem street by a ten year-old Palestinian boy, he wakes up in a heaven no one in his tradition prepared him for, a heaven of others. Cohen's novel stands at the crossroads of a conflicted city and word-play that both celebrates and dismantles tradition.

"A breathless flight of controlled delirium, an exquisitely blasphemous tour of an afterlife where earth's dominion, in all its terror and glory, trumps the miraculous and overturns the world to come... It's a brave book that should earn its young author the reader's profound and enduring admiration."
- Steve Stern, author of The Angel of Forgetfulness

"Joshua Cohen has created a visionary novel that is terrifying and heartbreaking and humbling in its luminous brilliance. In my view, it firmly places the author on the same level as Kafka."
- Michael Disend, author of Stomping the Goyim

Joshua Cohen is the author of three books, The Quorum, Cadenza for the Schneidermann Violin Concerto, and Aleph-Bet: An Alphabet for the Perplexed (also with Michael Hafftka). He was born in Southern New Jersey in 1980. Currently, he writes for The Forward and lives in Brooklyn, NY.

For three decades, Michael Hafftka's art has been widely exhibited, as well as providing the subject of several critical monographs.   His work is in the permanent collections of the Museum of Modern Art and several other major museums.   His work can be seen online at www.hafftka.com.

ISBN 0-9788811-4-1. ISBN-13 978-0-9788811-4-6.
Print run: 2,000 Price: $16.00
Official release: February 15, 2008
Contact: Ted Pelton, Starcherone Books, PO Box 303, Buffalo, NY 14201. Phone: 716-885-2726. Fax: 716-885-2726. ted@starcherone.com
Distribution through Small Press Distribution.
Book tour: New York, Buffalo, Chicago, Los Angeles, other venues TBA.