Not quite Yid Noir, but close

In truth, Naomi Alderman’s debut novel — sold first to Viking UK and slated for publication there in March — is more a coming of age tale, but I’ve my reasons for the subject header:

Naomi Alderman’s DISOBEDIENCE, about a 32-year-old Londoner who has

abandoned the Orthodox Jewish community in which she was raised for

Manhattan, to Doris Cooper at Touchstone, in a very nice deal, by

Jennifer Carlson at Dunow, Carlson & Lerner Literary Agency (NA).

And those reasons are as follows: anyone who can write a story that gets in, tells a story in quick bursts and gets out, and manages to make me laugh and mess with my head, is someone I want to read more of. Now.

Alderman received her BA from Oxford and her MA in Literature from University in East Anglia (and spent a summer in Arizona as a resident of the University of Arizona’s Poetry Center)  and can write a mean essay about Buffy the Vampire Slayer, too…