Tuesday, November 11, 2025, 7:30pm on Zoom (link)

Mrs. Lillienblum's Cloud Factory by Iddo Gefen (2025)

Known for Jerusalem Beach—an award-win­ning debut col­lec­tion of often star­tling philo­soph­ic and spec­u­la­tive short sto­ries — Iddo Gefen returns with his first nov­el. Mrs. Lilien­blum’s Cloud Fac­to­ry is writ­ten in a more com­ic vein than his pre­vi­ous work, and the high­ly enter­tain­ing result is an exquis­ite blend of endear­ing por­traits of a tight­ly knit fam­i­ly and their hard­scrab­ble com­mu­ni­ty, togeth­er with acer­bic and some­times affec­tion­ate satire of peo­ple dri­ven to high-tech hys­te­ria, phish­ing scams, faux-phil­an­thropy, cli­mate manip­u­la­tion, roman­tic love, and ulti­mate­ly humanity’s eter­nal pen­chant for delusion. 

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