Malkah is a child when her father tries teaching her to read Torah. But they don’t get very far. As Malkah studies, her questions multiply. She discovers an earlier, hidden story of creation within the Hebrew Aleph-Bet letters in the first line of Genesis. And a door opens. Malkah’s discovery takes her on a lifelong journey in search of her beginnings—into Jewish mystical texts, far-off places, archaeological digs, ancient gods, and ultimately into the nature of existence itself.

Rights Contact

Angela Engel <angela@thecollectivebook.studio>

Award(s)

2022 Foreword Indies –– Finalist and 2022 National Jewish Book Awards –– Finalist

Rights Sold (Countries)

USA

Book Website

https://www.amazon.com/Malkahs-Notebook-Journey-Mystical-Aleph-Bet/dp/1951412346

Contributor(s)

Mira Z. Amiras and Josh Baum (illustrator)

Publisher

The Collective Book Studio

ISBN-13

978-1-951412-34-0

Publication Date

Mar 1, 2022

Pages

312

Price

$34.95

Tags

#religion

#comicsandgraphicnovels

Our Review

Musing through a space that’s somewhere between an illuminated, psalmic narrative poem and a graphic novel attuned to the soul, "Malkah’s Notebook" is an intimate trip through Jewish mysticism and feminist theology. Malkah’s father spends his days in a dusty room piled high with somber and... Read More