Sensualist Apr 2026

It examines the collision between inherited culture and the world adolescents create for themselves. Barbara Hodgson: An Illustrated Mystery

17-year-old Samuel Gerson befriends Dmitri, an enigmatic Russian immigrant obsessed with Dostoevsky. Their friendship, combined with Samuel’s grandfather’s suicide, leads to a cycle of disturbing violence. sensualist

Published in 2012, this National Jewish Book Award winner tells a "quietly devastating" story set in 1990s Baltimore. It examines the collision between inherited culture and