The Golem and the Jinni
by Helene Wecker (US)
2013 / 496 pages
read by George Guidell
Rating 7 –   historical fantasy

I can’t help myself –  “Once upon a time in New York…”  there arrived, separately,  a golem and a jinni.   Actually,  the year is 1899.   The golem was created to be a companion to a very lonely man in Germany who then emigrated to the US but died en route.   The jinni was from wherever jinnis come from – Syria in this case  -he had been in held in captivity and forgotten but then >>>>MORE>>>>