Melting Point: Family, Memory, and the Search for a Promised Land Makayla is bursting with ideas

Makayla is bursting with ideas but doesn't know how to make them into a story

And he waits for the tide to bring him the day's small treasures

But the public is deeply divided on issues of body and soul

North Woods fires on all cylinders

and a right-wing populist backlash to globalization are raising fundamental questions about the economic system

Melting Point: Family, Memory, and the Search for a Promised Land Makayla is bursting with ideasLonglisted for the 2024 Baillie Gifford Prize for Non Fiction A New York Times Most Anticipated Book "Fabulous . . . One gets a thrilling sense of history unfolding in real time." Matthew Reisz, The Guardian This dazzling, innovative family memoir tells the story of a long lost plan to create a Jewish state in Texas. On June 7, 1907, a ship packed with Russian Jews sets sail not to Jerusalem or New York, as many on board have dreamed, but to Texas.