Review
"REBORN is the best novel of Kilpatrick's I've read to date, with very nice detail, enticing settings and wrenching characterization. It's clever and original in its treatment of vampires and their problems, running the gamut from psychological to cellular." -- gothic.net. "Nancy Kilpatrick is Queen of the Damned." -- Ottawa Citizen. "Anyone who has read the works of Nancy Kilpatrick can't deny that this woman knows her monsters." -- Fangoria Magazine. "If you like your horror bloody and hair-raising, REBORN is definitely for you. This book is every bit as creepy and gory as her earlier tombs." -- Writers Block Magazine. "Her vampires are metaphors for predatory energy." -- The National Post.
Product Description
This hilarious novel is an inside portrait of orthodox, post-Holocaust Judaism in a place that it never expected to be. It's the story of Yoine Levkes, boy hasid of the Canadian Prairies, his refugee parents...confronted with dying people, an ailing culture, the perils of near orphanhood, the allures of Sabina Mandelbroit...too religious to be normal and too normal not to realise this...Humour, satire, irony...and more. It's all here in Michael Wex's first and only novel - "Shlepping the Exile" which has also been published in German - but, of course, by a Swiss publisher! Wex has become a cult-figure in Europe, the Catskill Mountains and throughout North America with his monologues, stand up comedy performances, and his irreverent look at contemporary society. He launched his stand-up comedy act in a nightclub in KarlMarxStadt - East Germany, of course!
