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The Poetry of Secrets
The setting for Cambria Gordon's new young adult novel is the world of fifteenth-century Spain prior to the expulsion of the kingdom's Jews. Sixteen-year-old Isabel Perez is caught in a daily struggle as a crypto-Jew. Her family seeks an impossible balance, outwardly conforming to the church as conversos while hoping to secretly preserve their Jewish practice. The outside environment threatens Isabel, and tensions at home - which mirror the multiple responses of the Jewish community - also impose their own painful reality. Gordon's narrative emphasizes the interplay between external and internal pressures on a strong and gifted young woman as she tries to navigate the terrors of her time.
The dramatic tension grows as Isabel, with the support of her abuela, becomes interested in exploring Jewish texts. Gordon includes Isabel's poems, written in the tradition of Spanish Jewish and Arabic verse, alongside selections of work by historical poets. The young woman's attraction to language as a means to examine, codify, and express her own experience and that of her people is a central theme of the novel - as important as family bonds and romantic love. The complexities of the author's goal make her novel as vibrant as a street in medieval Spain; readers will want to follow Isabel on her winding path towards freedom.
The Poetry of Secrets includes an author's note with both personal insights and historical background material.
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