Congratulations to Sigal Samuel whose novel THE MYSTICS OF MILE END has been awarded the 2016 Canadian Jewish Literary Award for fiction.The Canadian Jewish Literary Awards chooses 8 winners from 60 works that demonstrate specific Jewish themes.
The gala awards ceremony will be held on October 30, 2016 at 2 pm 
in the Tribute Communities Recital Hall, Accolade East Building, York University 4700 Keele St. Admission is free and open to all! For more information visit Cjlawards.ca/winners2016
in the Tribute Communities Recital Hall, Accolade East Building, York University 4700 Keele St. Admission is free and open to all! For more information visit Cjlawards.ca/winners2016THE MYSTICS OF MILE END by Sigal Samuel weaves together four distinct voices to tell the story of the dysfunctional Meyer family with a dangerous mystical obsession. Living in Mile End, home to hipsters and Hasidic Jews, David, a professor of religion, is diagnosed with a heart murmur and becomes convinced that his heart is whispering divine secrets. When David’s attempts to ascend the Tree of Life lead to tragedy, his daughter Samara believes it is up to her to finish what he started, and her brother documents her increasingly strange behaviour. It falls to next-door neighbour Chaim Glassman to shatter the silence that divides the members of the Meyer family.