Chava, a golem, and Ahmad, a jinni, have unwittingly affected the humans around them. Park Avenue heiress Sophia Winston, whose brief encounter with Ahmad left her with a strange illness. In a tenement on the Lower East Side, a little girl, Kreindel, helps her rabbi father build a golem they name Yossele -- not knowing that she's about to be sent to an orphanage uptown, where the hulking Yossele will become her only friend and protector. Spanning the tumultuous years from the turn of the twentieth century to the beginning of World War I, this sequel follows these lives and others as they collide and interweave.
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