The Belief in Angels- Book Reading/QA/Signing

J. Dylan Yates, "The Belief in Angels"The Belief In Angels (She Writes Press)

Join us in the afternoon as this wildly talented author brings you a coming-of-age tale quite unlike anything you've read before. Jules Finn and Samuel Trautman know that sorrow can sink deeply, so deeply it can drown the spirit. In The Belief in Angels, by J. Dylan Yates, these two wounded souls must decide: surrender to the grief that threatens to destroy them, or find the strength to swim for the surface. Growing up in a volatile hippie household on a tiny island off the coast of Boston, Jules's imaginative sense of humor is the weapon she wields as a defense against the chaos of her family's household. But somewhere between gun-waving gambling debt collectors and LSD-laced breakfast cereal adventures, her younger brother Moses dies, and it's a blow from which Jules may never fully recover. Jules's grandfather, Samuel, wants to help his grandchildren, but he's wrapped up in a sad story of his own. Once called Szaja, Samuel is an orthodox Jew who lived through the murderous Ukranian pogroms of the 1920s, as well as the Majdanek Death Camp, but his survival came at an unspeakable price. In their darkest moments, Jules and Samuel receive what could only be explained as divine intervention serendipitous experiences that give them each the hope they so desperately need. Ultimately, however, they both must look inside themselves for the courage to come to the rescue of their own fractured lives.