Aimee Lucido, Sofiya Pasternack: Judaism Unbound Episode 271 - Jewish Stories We Need
Aimee Lucido and Sofiya Pasternack, award-winning authors of novels geared toward students in middle grades, join Dan and Lex for a conversation about Jewish fiction. They explore some of the gaps in the ecosystem of Jewish literature and envision what it would look like to fill some of those gaps -- through their own work, but also through work done by other authors.
Photographers: Nina Pomeroy (photo of Aimee Lucido, left) and Alexis Scheid (photo of Sofiya Pasternack, right)
[1] Aimee Lucido is the author of Emmy In the Key of Code (click here to purchase!), a semifinalist for the UK's Carnegie Medal (comparable to the American Newberry Award), and of Recipe for Disaster, an upcoming (Fall 2021, pre-order here) book centering a 12-year-old girl who isn't sure if she's "Jewish enough."
[2] Sofiya Pasternack is the author of Anya and the Dragon and Anya and the Nightingale -- the latter a Finalist in 2020 for the National Jewish Book Award. These novels blend elements of Jewish tradition and history with the genre of fantasy, helping readers imagine when those two theoretically-separate realms collide.
[3] Learn more about Aimee Lucido at AimeeLucido.com, and learn more about Sofiya Pasternack at SofiyaPasternack.com.
[4] Lucido mentions a book called Color Me In, written by Natasha Diaz. Learn more about it by clicking here.