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When the Angels Left the Old Country by Sacha Lamb textbook family gatheringsNational Jewish Book Award Finalist Imagine Neil Gaiman meets Fiddler on the Roof. Or Sherlock Holmes meets Fivel Goes West. Neither comparison is exactly accurate, but they do help paint a picture of When the Angels Left the Old Countrya sweeping, engrossing tale that follows two mystical creatures, an angel and a demon, as they journey to America from their small shtetl in the early twentieth century. Evie Saphire Bernstein, Jewish Book Council