Short story guru Susan Marie Shuman broadens her expertise while letting her creativity run amok in her first novella: The Homunculus Heroes.
On a first-name basis with their local Hazmat Team, Sebastian & Frankie Limbourg are two adolescent brothers blessed with wild-ass imaginations and IQs to match. Find out what happens when their grandmother sends them a Homunculus Heroes Incubation Kit — that actually works! Through a series of misadventures such as exploding vaccines, Hazmat visits, an interspecies romance between a homunculus and a golem, parental discord — even an abduction — the brothers manage to learn about life, adulting, Judaism, and what family is all about.
Told with humor, insight, and a large dose of fantasy, this little book has an important message for all of us — from young adults to adults young at heart.
Also, you’ll find an amusing and from-the-heart foreword by Rabbi Stephen Lewis Fuchs: über-rabbi, prolific author, gifted speaker, and all-around mensch.
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