Melting Point: Family, Memory, and the Search for a Promised Land Donna Barba Huguera Toshikazu Kawaguchi's internationally bestselling novel

Toshikazu Kawaguchi's internationally bestselling novel explores the age-old question: What would you change if you could travel back in time

Jack Bennett

so when Wallace is given one week to cross over

It's the story of his principled grandmother and ambitious parents

an apprentice struggling to understand the mysterious voice in her head

Melting Point: Family, Memory, and the Search for a Promised Land Donna Barba Huguera Toshikazu Kawaguchi's internationally bestselling novelLonglisted 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.