Suggests: Eli Zuzovsky at Harvard Book Store
Wed, Feb 19
|Cambridge


Time & Location
Feb 19, 2025, 7:00 PM – 10:00 PM
Cambridge, 1256 Massachusetts Ave, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA
About the event
Harvard Book Store welcomes Eli Zuzovsky—winner of the 2025 Einstein Fellowship and Rhodes Scholar from both Harvard and Oxford University—for a discussion of his debut novel Mazeltov. Moderated by Claire Messud.
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.Â
Praise for Mazeltov
"A sweet, sly, mournful, and horny coming of age, written with heart-on-the-sleeve and politics in the pants. Mazeltov's passionately talented author has more than earned his title's congratulations and his readers' acclaim." —Joshua Cohen, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Netanyahus
"By turns hilarious and heartbreaking, Eli Zuzovsky’s brilliantly observed novel offers a kaleidoscopic view of a young queer man’s life, his family and his times, through the lens of his bar mitzvah. Mazeltov is an unforgettable, virtuosic debut." —Claire Messud, author of This Strange Eventful History
"Each part of the novel is accomplished…