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Dark doings are afoot in the forests of Charwood...After joining the Tenders, a band of backwoods activists claiming to solve climate change by burning trees for energy, Orna Tannenbaum falls in with Rowan, their odd yet charming leader. But when she uncovers what the Tenders are really up to in the forest, she must apply the ancient wisdom of her culture to battle dark forces threatening to gain a foothold in our world.An ecological Jewish folk horror novel 5,783 years in the making."Schlossberg delivers a blend of Jewish mysticism, the supernatural, and current day environmental challenges in this thought provoking tale that will leave you thinking about it long after you turn the last page."-Daniel Braum, author of The Night Marchers and Other Strange Tales"There is eco-horror. There is religious apocalypse. And then there is Charwood. I promise you will have never read anything like this powerful evocation of ancient Jewish mysticism and the Kabbalah, seamlessly coupled with topical headlines about deforestation and climate change."-Elana Gomel, author of Nightwood¿"Charwood is a seamless fusion of Jewish mysticism and ecological horror, thrilling and terrifying in equal measure." -Richard Dansky, author of Ghost of a Marriage

Jacob Zvi has turned his back on everything he was taught to value. His faith, his family, his citizenship, and even his morals. Yet seemingly divine fate introduces Jacob to the struggling members of an Orthodox congregation in the middle of ghetto in New Orleans while terrorists explode a purloined Soviet nuclear artillery shell atop the Temple Mount in Jerusalem.But things quickly take a turn for the Biblical, for the worthy dead are returning to life to build a Third Temple atop the now radioactive Temple Mount, scoured empty by the atomic blast. They return not to bodies of flesh and blood, but to cybernetic bodies produced in an advanced robotics lab on the Tulane campus, part of a secret project funded by the Department of Homeland Security.The End of Days has begun, but unlike anything that has been anticipated by Christians, Buddhists, Hindus, or Muslims. When Jacob is inexplicably selected to serve as God's mouthpiece, and he finds he makes for a clownishly awkward prophet of God's Kingdom on Earth.But he will have to up his game immeasurably in order to broker peace with all the factions who bitterly reject this version of the End Times-chief among them progressive Jews themselves! THE END OF DAZE, a science fiction eschatological satire fitting for the End Times encroaching on the twenty-first century.