Burg uses his own family history—his parents were Holocaust survivors—to inform his innovative views on what the Jewish people need to do to move on and eventually live in peace with their Arab neighbors and feel comfortable in the world at large

There's earth to dig up and rubble to clear

When Nancy Vienneau started a casual potluck celebrating good food and goodwill

Will any other fruit make Ned feel at home again

which includes grand plans of wooing and falling in love with the woman of his choice

The Emperor of the Eight Islands (The Tale of Shikanoko, Book 1) Purgatorio Burg uses his own familyAn ambitious warlord leaves his nephew for dead and seizes his lands. A stubborn father forces his younger son to surrender his wife to his older brother. A mysterious woman seeks five fathers for her children. A powerful priest meddles in the succession to the Lotus Throne. These are the threads of an intricate tapestry in which the laws of destiny play out against a backdrop of wild forest, elegant court, and savage battlefield. Set in a mythical