Suggests: Book Launch: Mazeltov by Eli Zuzovsky in conversation with Joshua Aaron Cohen
Mon, Feb 17
|Brooklyn


Time & Location
Feb 17, 2025, 7:00 PM – 9:00 PM
Brooklyn, 28 Adams St, Brooklyn, NY 11201, USA
About the event
Attend a Book Launch (Mazeltov by Eli Zuzovsky Harvard AB '21) with Pulitzer Prize Winner Joshua Cohen at POWERHOUSE Arena, Brooklyn on Monday, February 17th.
In a glorious debut, a boy confronts queer lust, shame, the threat of war, and the plague of family on the day he becomes a man.
At a banquet hall, at the onset of war, Adam Weizmann’s bar mitzvah party turns into a glorious catastrophe. On the cusp of manhood—and the verge of a nervous breakdown—Adam has been bracing for his special day, mired in family neuroses and national dysfunction.
In a chorus of voices, a fractious cast of well-wishers narrates Adam’s coming-of-age in Israel: his newly devout father and the mystic rituals he practiced on his young son; his best friend, Abbie, who points the way to joyful transgression; Khalil, a Palestinian poet, who offers a glimpse of a different way to be; and…