Larger	A Blessing on the Moon Author: Joseph Skibell
	Book Information Publisher: Algonquin Books Book Type: Hardcover Rating: 4 ISBN-13: 9781565121799 - ISBN-10: 1565121791 Publication Date: 1/10/1997 Pages: 256 Book Reviews

Winner of the Richard and Hilda Rosenthal Foundation Award, American Academy of Arts and Letters; and the Steven Turner Award for a First Book of Fiction, Texas Institute of Letters. Chaim Skibelski was a successful businessman, father, and husband before he was killed along with all the other Jews from his small Polish town during the Holocaust. Instead of peacefully resting in the World to Come, Chaim is left to walk the earth, wounds and all. On his journey Chaim unexpectedly finds hope, compassion, and renewal beneath the human propensity for destruction. A fabulous tour de force in the tradition of Jerzy Kosinski's THE PAINTED BIRD and the work of Isaac Bashevis Singer.