The devel and Ms Rosenblum

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The Dyke and the Dybbuk, Ellen Galford

I’m somewhat at a loss to describe this book, other than to say that it’s a hilarious and brilliant feminist romp through Orthodox Judaic tradition and contemporary British lesbian culture. The title characters – Rainbow Rosenblum, London taxi-driver, alternative press film critic, and unmarried niece in a family full of matchmaking aunts; and Kokos, a dybbuk recently freed by a stroke of lightning from the tree she was sealed inside for two hundred years by the incantations of a famous rabbi – are brought together because it is Kokos’ long-delayed assignment to fulfil a curse on Rainbow’s maternal line onto the 33rd generation, something she must carry out or face downsizing in a truly disturbing corporate version of Hell.

It’s really, really funny. Really. Funny.