It was a writing class prompt that brought author Julie Zuckerman to Jeremiah Gerstler, the 82-year-old, cantankerous protagonist of her debut novel-in-stories, “The Book of Jeremiah” (Press 53, 2019).
“My writing teacher said, ‘Write about someone who is definitely not you,'” said Zuckerman, who celebrated her book with a recent launch party in Modiin, the central Israel city where she has lived for the last 21 years.
Read the full article by Jessica Steinberg in The Times of Israel
