2022 book 147

 Mari Lowe's Aviva vs the Dybbuk

I’m pretty much always going to read a Jewish fantasy book, and while I didn’t /love/ this one, I know a couple kids I might recommend it to. It’s a middle grade book about an Orthodox Jewish girl whose father died in an accident several years earlier, and now she and her mother live in a small apartment over the mikvah, which is haunted by a dybbuk. The plot beats are all pretty formulaic, but I did appreciate seeing this sort of story in a Jewish context. I especially loved all the scenes of the various women at the mikvah (there were a lot of awesome women in this book). And I still did cry a couple of times! B+.