Emily Barton is the author of Brookland and The Testament of Yves Gundron, which were both selected as New York Times Notable Books of the Year. Her essays, short stories, and reviews have appeared in Story, Conjunctions, the Massachusetts Review, Tablet, and the Los Angeles Times, among many other publications.
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Eastern Europe, August 1942. The Khazar kaganate, an isolated nation of Turkic warrior Jews, lies between the Pontus Euxinus (the Black Sea) and the Khazar Sea (the Caspian). It also happens to lie between a belligerent nation to the west that the Khazars... SEE MORE