In this sweep­ing and deeply per­son­al nov­el, Isa­iah Mar­gulies explores the Jew­ish dias­po­ra through the cen­turies-long jour­ney of the Vostęvskie fam­i­ly. Span­ning from their near-myth­i­cal roots in a Pol­ish farm­ing vil­lage, to the mer­chant ships and sprawl­ing shanties of port cities across the globe, this epic tale of sur­vival, love, and loss high­lights the com­plex­i­ties of iden­ti­ty, assim­i­la­tion, and the human con­di­tion.

With lyri­cal prose and a nuanced under­stand­ing of the Jew­ish expe­ri­ence, Mar­gulies weaves togeth­er his­tor­i­cal fic­tion, a family’s saga, and deep­er philo­soph­i­cal inquiry. As the Vostęvskies nav­i­gate the rav­ages of world war, forced migra­tion, and unre­quit­ed love, they must con­front the ulti­mate ques­tion: Can a peo­ple thrive when so much has been lost to time?

A poignant and thought-pro­vok­ing explo­ration of her­itage, belong­ing, and the search for mean­ing, Dias­po­ra will res­onate with any­one with a soul to feed.