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257 pages, paperback

According to Jewish folklore, a dybbuk is the spirit of a dead person who possesses the body of one yet living. The dybbuk Kokos missed her assignment and was trapped in a tree for 200 years. Now free in twentieth-century London, she tracks the descendant of her original assignee, one Rainbow Rosenbloom, a lesbian. Galford, who lived in New York City until just after the Stonewall riots, moved to Scotland, then to London in the early 1980s, serves up a deliciously absurd stew of mischievous spirits, contemporary Jews, and British dykes, all basted with ladles of laughter. --Marie Kuda, Booklist