Dance of the Puppet

A Novel How does it feel to be on stage, in the limelight, holding a most prestigious title...when you’re really nothing more than a puppet, directed by the real power-that-be figures in your life? Yaffa Levinsky: Though already a wife and mother, Yaffa still has not found her own voice—until a most absurd turn of events, which lands her with a position that she never, in her wildest dreams, would have thought would be hers. Elchanan Levinsky: Yaffa’s husband, Elchanan finds himself in a muddle of his own when the business he joins begins showing odd signs that, try as he might, he just can’t ignore. Dovi Brim: A foolish mistake is all it takes to land Dovi, a talented American bachur learning in a Bnei Brak yeshivah, in deep trouble—with only the Levinskys holding the key with which to smoothen things out for him. Malka Mann: Enmeshed in a complicated relationship with her close friend and colleague, Yael Braun, Malka’s world comes crashing down around her with the news o