Aviva vs. the Dybbuk

By: Mari Lowe

Narrated by: Leah Horowitz

A long-ago “accident”. An isolated girl named Aviva. A community that wants to help but doesn’t know how. And a ghostly dybbuk that no one but Aviva can see, causing mayhem and mischief that everyone blames on her.

That is the setting for this suspenseful novel of a girl who seems to have lost everything, including her best friend, Kayla, and a mother who was once vibrant and popular but who now can’t always get out of bed in the morning.

As tensions escalate in the Jewish community of Beacon with incidents of vandalism and a swastika carved into new concrete poured near the synagogue...so does the tension grow between Aviva and Kayla and the girls at their school, and so do the actions of the dybbuk grow worse.

Could real harm be coming Aviva’s way? And is it somehow related to the “accident” that took her father years ago?

Aviva vs. the Dybbuk is a compelling, tender story about friendship and community, grief and healing, and one indomitable girl who somehow manages to connect them all.

©2022 Mari Lowe (P)2022 Recorded Books

Yes

Ngl it was a prettty scary book but a good one Ig I kinda recommend

Tale for all ages

This tale of a lonely young girl is a wonderful tale. While it employs common tropes (two former friends who rekindle their friendship being chief among them), the author uses it to great effect. I will definitely be revisiting this one in the future.