In a riveting novel of love and
adventure, young Julius Meyer comes to the New World to find himself
acting as translator for the famed Indian chief Standing Bear.
Review:
"As he did in Etta: A Novel, Kolpan uses real and imagined historical
personalities to offer an alternately wry and rueful version of the
American West. While Etta recast Butch Cassidy’s paramour as a
Philadelphia-born feminist heroine toughing it out with the bad boys of
the Wild Bunch, Magic Words is a complicated, breathlessly plotted
fictional take on the American Jewish experience unlike anything we’ve
seen from Philip Roth, Chaim Potok, Saul Bellow, or Bernard Malamud."
-Bill Kent of The Philadelphia Inquirer
