Posted on April 12, 2021

We’re pleased to announce a Blog Tour for Jacobo’s Rainbow, the new novel from the multiple-award winning author of My Mother’s Son. Reviews, comments, discussions and the like (on Instagram, Twitter, Facebook) will be featured on the following dates in May with the organizations listed in the banner below.

Find out why Gary Shteyngart (author of Lake Success, Absurdistan, and The Russian Debutante’s Handbook) said, “A beautiful novel set in the past but perfectly, scarily, relevant to our current moment.”

Here’s what Shulem Deen (author of All Who Go Do Not Return) wrote, “Blending together historical events and wonderfully imaginative settings, David Hirshberg explores the American Jewish experience in this evocative novel of self-discovery, belonging, and the complexities of identity.”

Jeanne McWilliams Blasberg, author of The Nine and Eden, said, “Although set in the nineteen sixties, David Hirshberg’s Jacobo’s Rainbow is infused with prescient relevance today.  This hero’s journey shines a light on activism and protest on a college campus as well as the idea of patriotism and serving in the army.  Most profoundly, it depicts a search for identity as young Jacobo Toledano struggles with the blurry distinction between who people are and how they present themselves in public.  I loved this novel for its timeless message: that building a home of one’s own means leaving the safety of childhood and being resilient to the knocks the world hands you, true for an individual as well as a tribe.”