Bernie Karp, the impressionable 15-year-old son of the couple in whose home a rabbi lies frozen, inadvertently thaws out the ancient man. When the rabbi comes fully and mischievously to life, Bernie finds himself on an unexpected odyssey to understand his heritage and his destiny.
Award-winning novelist Steve Stern's exhilarating epic recounts the story of how a nineteenth-century rabbi from a small Polish town ends up in a basement freezer in a suburban Memphis home at the end of the twentieth century. What happens when an impressionable teenage boy inadvertently thaws out the ancient man and brings him back to life is nothing short of miraculous.