Night Owls

A Sydney Taylor and National Jewish Book Award Winner

By: A. R. Vishny

Narrated by: Gilli Messer, Josh Bloomberg

* National Jewish Book Award Winner * Green Mountain Book Award Nominee * Sydney Taylor Book Award Winner * YALSA's 2026 Best Fiction for Young Adults *

In this thrilling paranormal YA romance debut steeped in folklore, two estries—owl-shifting female vampires from Jewish tradition—face New York's monstrous underworld to save the girl one of them loves with help from the boy one of them fears before they are, all of them, lost forever.

Clara loves rules. Rules are what have kept her and her sister, Molly, alive—or, rather, undead—for over a century. Work their historic movie theater by day. Shift into an owl under the cover of night. Feed on men in secret. And never fall in love.

Molly is in love. And she’s tired of keeping her girlfriend, Anat, a secret. If Clara won’t agree to bend their rules a little, then she will bend them herself.

Boaz is cursed. He can’t walk two city blocks without being cornered by something undead. At least at work at the theater, he gets to flirt with Clara, wishing she would like him back.

When Anat vanishes and New York’s monstrous underworld emerges from the shadows, Clara suspects Boaz, their annoyingly cute box office attendant, might be behind it all.

But if they are to find Anat, they will need to work together to face demons and the hungers they would sooner bury. Clara will have to break all her rules—of love, of life, and of death itself—before her rules break everyone she loves.

In this stand-alone debut, A. R. Vishny interweaves mystery, romance, and lore to create an unputdownable story about those who have kept to the shadows for far too long.

• Perfect for Halloween Reading
• Ideal for fans of the supernatural
• For teens who love dark and scary stories

A trip to the past

Loved the story - especially the trip into the old Yiddish theatre, old movies and East village.
Loved the mixture or English, Hebrew and Yiddish.
Both of the narrators did a great job in transforming us to the old traditions, love and romance and Jewish culture.
I could see it as a play or a movie in the future!!
Cheers!

Night Owls is a fun, ya urban fantasy

Thrilling story about Estries, women who let down their hair to shape-shift into vampiric owls. These estries are two sisters who own a landmark theater in downtown Manhattan. When Boaz, a college student who can see see ghosts enters their lives, their history catches up with the sisters along with demons, sharp-tongued aunts and the MGM lion.