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This week Marcela reads from Nava Semel\\u2019s novel, Isra Ilse, an alternative history of the Jewish\\xa0People in which there was no state of Israel, and no holocaust.

The novel is divided into three parts. Part 1, a detective story, opens in September 2001 when Liam\\xa0Emanuel, an Israeli descendant of Noah, learns about and inherits Grand Island, which is downriver from\\xa0Niagara Falls. He leaves Israel intending to reclaim this \\u201cPromised Land\\u201d in America. Shortly after he arrives in\\xa0America Liam disappears. Simon T. Lenox, a Native American police investigator, tries to recover Israel\\u2019s\\xa0\\u201cmissing son.\\u201d

Text:

Nava Semel, Isra Ilse. Translated by Jessica Cohen. Mandel Vilar Press (October\\xa017, 2016)