How to Find Your Way In the Dark
(Adobe EPUB eBook, Kindle Book, OverDrive Read)
FINALIST FOR THE NATIONAL JEWISH BOOK AWARD
WINNER OF THE JEWISH FICTION AWARD FROM THE ASSOCIATION OF JEWISH LIBRARIES
"[Miller's] character portraits are indelible, often heartbreaking. At times this novel moved me to tears, the highest possible compliment."
—New York Times Book Review
With the wit and scope of Michael Chabon's The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay, Derek B. Miller tackles his most ambitious epic yet. At its heart is the return of Sheldon Horowitz, the protagonist from Miller's award-winning first novel, Norwegian by Night, who was lauded by Pulitzer Prize–winning author Richard Russo as "one of the most memorable characters . . . that I've encountered in years."
MEET SHELDON IN THE MORNING OF HIS LIFE
Twelve-year old Sheldon Horowitz is still recovering from the tragic loss of his mother only a year ago when a suspicious traffic accident steals the life of his father near their home in rural Massachusetts. It is 1938, and Sheldon, who was in the truck, emerges from the crash an orphan hell-bent on revenge. He takes that fire with him to Hartford, where he embarks on a new life under the roof of his buttoned-up Uncle Nate. Sheldon, his teenage cousins Abe and Mirabelle, and his best friend, Lenny, will contend with tradition and orthodoxy, appeasement and patriotism, mafia hitmen and angry accordion players, all while World War II takes center stage alongside a hurricane in New England and comedians in the Catskills. With his eye always on vengeance for his father's murder, Sheldon stakes out his place in a world he now understands is comprised largely of crimes: right and wrong, big and small.
"For me—as I'm certain it will be for every reader of the wonderful Norwegian By Night—Derek B. Miller's new novel is a genuine literary event (Sheldon Horowitz is back!). Miller has long deserved to be a household name. How to Find Your Way in the Dark should finally make him one."
—Richard Russo, author of Empire Falls and Chances Are...
If you are having problem transferring a title to your device, please fill out this support form or visit the library so we can help you to use our eBooks and eAudio Books.
Derek B. Miller. (2021). How to Find Your Way In the Dark. HarperCollins.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation (style guide)Derek B. Miller. 2021. How to Find Your Way In the Dark. HarperCollins.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities Citation (style guide)Derek B. Miller, How to Find Your Way In the Dark. HarperCollins, 2021.
MLA Citation (style guide)Derek B. Miller. How to Find Your Way In the Dark. HarperCollins, 2021.
| Library | Owned | Available |
|---|---|---|
| Shared Digital Collection | 3 | 3 |
OverDrive Product Record
- images
- cover:
- href: https://img1.od-cdn.com/ImageType-100/0874-1/{507ACAE1-4275-471B-8462-33DADCE103E5}Img100.jpg
- type: image/jpeg
- thumbnail:
- href: https://img1.od-cdn.com/ImageType-200/0874-1/{507ACAE1-4275-471B-8462-33DADCE103E5}Img200.jpg
- type: image/jpeg
- cover150Wide:
- href: https://img1.od-cdn.com/ImageType-150/0874-1/507/ACA/E1/{507ACAE1-4275-471B-8462-33DADCE103E5}Img150.jpg
- type: image/jpeg
- cover300Wide:
- href: https://img1.od-cdn.com/ImageType-400/0874-1/507/ACA/E1/{507ACAE1-4275-471B-8462-33DADCE103E5}Img400.jpg
- type: image/jpeg
- cover:
- formats
- identifiers:
- type: ISBN
- value: 9780358270096
- name: Adobe EPUB eBook
- id: ebook-epub-adobe
- identifiers:
- identifiers:
- type: ASIN
- value: B08B3HQVWS
- name: Kindle Book
- id: ebook-kindle
- identifiers:
- identifiers:
- type: ISBN
- value: 9780358270096
- name: OverDrive Read
- id: ebook-overdrive
- identifiers:
- mediaType
- eBook
- primaryCreator
- role: Author
- name: Derek B. Miller
- title
- How to Find Your Way In the Dark
- dateAdded
- 2021-07-23T18:01:00Z
- contentDetails
- href: https://link.overdrive.com/?websiteID=141&titleID=5545985
- type: text/html
- account:
- name: Sacramento Public Library (CA)
- id: 1151
- sortTitle
- How to Find Your Way In the Dark
- crossRefId
- 5545985
- series
- Sheldon Horowitz
- id
- 507ACAE1-4275-471B-8462-33DADCE103E5
- starRating
- 4.3
OverDrive MetaData
- isPublicDomain
- False
- formats
- fileName: HowtoFindYourWayInth_9780358270096_5545985
- partCount: 0
- fileSize: 833049
- identifiers:
- type: ISBN
- value: 9780358270096
- rights:
- type: Copying
- value: 0
- type: Printing
- value: 0
- type: Lending
- value: 0
- type: ReadAloud
- value: 1
- type: ExpirationRights
- value: 0
- name: Adobe EPUB eBook
- isReadAlong: False
- id: ebook-epub-adobe
- onSaleDate: 7/27/2021
- samples:
- source: From the book
- formatType: ebook-overdrive
- url: https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=507acae1-4275-471b-8462-33dadce103e5&.epub-sample.overdrive.com
- fileName: HowtoFindYourWayInth_5545985
- partCount: 0
- fileSize: 0
- identifiers:
- type: ASIN
- value: B08B3HQVWS
- name: Kindle Book
- isReadAlong: False
- id: ebook-kindle
- onSaleDate: 7/27/2021
- samples:
- source: From the book
- formatType: ebook-overdrive
- url: https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=507acae1-4275-471b-8462-33dadce103e5&.epub-sample.overdrive.com
- fileName: HowtoFindYourWayInth_9780358270096_5545985
- partCount: 0
- fileSize: 0
- identifiers:
- type: ISBN
- value: 9780358270096
- name: OverDrive Read
- isReadAlong: False
- id: ebook-overdrive
- onSaleDate: 7/27/2021
- samples:
- source: From the book
- formatType: ebook-overdrive
- url: https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=507acae1-4275-471b-8462-33dadce103e5&.epub-sample.overdrive.com
- creators
- role: Author
- fileAs: Miller, Derek B.
- bioText:
Derek B. Miller is an American novelist, who worked in international affairs before turning to writing full-time. He is the author of five previous novels, all highly acclaimed: Norwegian by Night, The Girl in Green, American by Day, Radio Life and Quiet Time (an Audible Original). His work has been shortlisted for many awards, with Norwegian by Night winning the CWA John Creasey Dagger Award for best first crime novel, an eDunnit Award and the Goldsboro Last Laugh Award. How to Find Your Way in the Dark was a Finalist for the National Jewish Book Award and a New York Times best mystery of 2021.
Derek B. Miller is a graduate of Sarah Lawrence College (BA), Georgetown (MA) and he earned his Ph.D. summa cum laude in international relations from The Graduate Institute in Geneva with post-graduate work at Oxford. He is currently connected to numerous peace and security research and policy centers in North America, Europe and Africa, and he worked with the United Nations for over a decade. He has lived abroad for over twenty-five years in Israel, the United Kingdom, Hungary, Switzerland, Norway and Spain.
- name: Derek B. Miller
- imprint
- Mariner Books
- publishDate
- 2021-07-27T00:00:00-04:00
- isOwnedByCollections
- True
- title
- How to Find Your Way In the Dark
- fullDescription
FINALIST FOR THE NATIONAL JEWISH BOOK AWARD
WINNER OF THE JEWISH FICTION AWARD FROM THE ASSOCIATION OF JEWISH LIBRARIES
"[Miller's] character portraits are indelible, often heartbreaking. At times this novel moved me to tears, the highest possible compliment."
—New York Times Book Review
With the wit and scope of Michael Chabon's The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay, Derek B. Miller tackles his most ambitious epic yet. At its heart is the return of Sheldon Horowitz, the protagonist from Miller's award-winning first novel, Norwegian by Night, who was lauded by Pulitzer Prize–winning author Richard Russo as "one of the most memorable characters . . . that I've encountered in years."
MEET SHELDON IN THE MORNING OF HIS LIFE
Twelve-year old Sheldon Horowitz is still recovering from the tragic loss of his mother only a year ago when a suspicious traffic accident steals the life of his father near their home in rural Massachusetts. It is 1938, and Sheldon, who was in the truck, emerges from the crash an orphan hell-bent on revenge. He takes that fire with him to Hartford, where he embarks on a new life under the roof of his buttoned-up Uncle Nate. Sheldon, his teenage cousins Abe and Mirabelle, and his best friend, Lenny, will contend with tradition and orthodoxy, appeasement and patriotism, mafia hitmen and angry accordion players, all while World War II takes center stage alongside a hurricane in New England and comedians in the Catskills. With his eye always on vengeance for his father's murder, Sheldon stakes out his place in a world he now understands is comprised largely of crimes: right and wrong, big and small.
"For me—as I'm certain it will be for every reader of the wonderful Norwegian By Night—Derek B. Miller's new novel is a genuine literary event (Sheldon Horowitz is back!). Miller has long deserved to be a household name. How to Find Your Way in the Dark should finally make him one."
—Richard Russo, author of Empire Falls and Chances Are...
- seriesId
- 751593
- reviews
- premium: False
- source: New York Times Book Review
- content:
"[Miller's] character portraits are indelible, often heartbreaking. At times this novel moved me to tears, the highest possible compliment." — New York Times Book Review
"A rollicking novel that . . . follows its characters through a decade of fascinating history. Miller has crafted a wide-ranging, years-spanning yet tightly structured plot, and he excels at placing memorable characters in unusual circumstances. An underlying seriousness lies at the heart of all of this intrigue, hilarity and fun . . . The ending of How to Find Your Way in the Dark is nothing short of brilliant." — Bookpage, *starred review*
"[A] terrific coming-of-age story . . . Readers will root for Sheldon, a memorable survivor, every step of the way." — Publishers Weekly, *starred* review
"Compelling and deeply satisfying." — Booklist
"The Old Testament is the first hardboiled detective story (spoiler: God's the killer); Derek B. Miller's sly, moving, fable-like HOW TO FIND YOUR WAY IN THE DARK is Chandler by way of The Chosen, Marlowe with a touch of Talmud, 'Judeo-Noir' at its finest." — —Shalom Auslander, nationally best-selling author of Hope: A Tragedy and Mother for Dinner
"For me—as I'm certain it will be for every reader of the wonderful Norwegian By Night—Derek B. Miller's new novel is a genuine literary event (Sheldon Horowitz is back!). Miller has long deserved to be a household name. HOW TO FIND YOUR WAY IN THE DARK should finally make him one." — —Richard Russo, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Empire Falls and Chances Are...
"In a novel that manages to be both searing and funny, Derek Miller's characters slalom through the underside of pre-war city life, through breathtaking U-boat battles, and into the Borscht Belt at its most fraught hour, when the Jewish world teeters on the abyss. With Miller's signature blend of humor and questions that make you sit up straight and reconsider, HOW TO FIND YOUR WAY IN THE DARK puts a finger on the paradox of Jewish comedy." — —Rachel Kadish, National Jewish Book Award-winning author of The Weight of Ink
- premium: True
- source:
- content:
May 15, 2021
This is one busy book! There's enough plot here for three novels. At its heart, though, it's the story of Sheldon Horowitz, who is 12 when readers first meet him and soon to become an orphan after his father is murdered (his mother died a year earlier). Sheldon survives the atrocity with a new purpose in life: to exact revenge for his father's death. Meanwhile, he is sent to Hartford to live with his widowed Uncle Nate and older cousins Abe and Mirabelle, whose stories are also expansively told. Abe--who embodies one of the book's major themes, the struggle against anti-Semitism--is a firebrand, furiously familiar with the endemic anti-Semitism of the time, the late 1930s and early 1940s. Sheldon, now 15, steals a suitcase full of money (it's complicated) and ultimately winds up with a new life in New York. This only scratches the surface of this incident-rich, coming-of-age novel--perhaps too incident-rich, since the lives of Abe and Mirabelle tend to divert attention from Sheldon's story. Nevertheless, the story is compelling and deeply satisfying.COPYRIGHT(2021) Booklist, ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.
- premium: True
- source:
- content:
Starred review from May 31, 2021
This terrific coming-of-age story, a prequel to Miller’s Norwegian by Night, follows Sheldon Horowitz from his parents’ deaths before his 13th birthday in 1937 to his departure a decade later from the isolated New England village where he and Lenny Bernstein, his best friend and the only other Jewish kid he knows, lead lives largely sheltered from both anti-Semitism and Jewish culture. Sheldon, a tough kid with outdoor skills cultivated during a childhood spent hunting and trapping with his father, a shell-shocked WWI vet, decides, correctly, that the accident that killed his dad as they drove home from his mother’s funeral was murder, and devotes his teen years to seeking vengeance while living with an uncle. This quest spirals into grimly entertaining capers, including a jewel heist in the burgeoning borscht belt resorts of the Catskills. Diverting subplots track America’s entry into WWII and the birth of modern stand-up comedy, as shown by Lenny’s hilarious forays into showbiz. Readers will root for Sheldon, a memorable survivor, every step of the way. Agent: PJ Mark, Janklow & Nesbit Assoc.
- premium: True
- source:
- content:
June 1, 2021
With the Nazi threat as backdrop, a series of family tragedies, criminal violence, and antisemitic acts animate this New England-set prequel to Miller's debut, Norwegian by Night (2012). A year after small-town Jewish boy Sheldon Horowitz's mother and aunt were killed in a theater fire, his father is killed when a truck runs his vehicle off the road. Twelve-year-old Sheldon, who survives the crash, is convinced it was no accident. Even after moving from rural Massachusetts to Hartford to live with his widowed uncle, he is determined to track down the murderous driver and avenge his father's death. Just how capable this introspective boy is of vengeance (and how shaken he is by the deaths in his family) is revealed when he sets fire to his house to frame as arsonists the Jew-hating siblings who, as salesmen for his father's pelt business, stole from him. At the behest of his best (and only Jewish) friend, Lenny Bernstein, Sheldon escapes to a Jewish resort in upstate New York, where he gets a job as a bellhop and becomes perilously involved in a case of stolen jewels, and Lenny sets his sights on becoming successful as a confrontational stand-up comic. Sheldon's older cousin Abe, obsessed with disproving the weak Jewish stereotype, takes a darker path. After his father, an accountant at the Colt Armory, is set up to take the fall for a bunch of missing guns, Abe exacts revenge on his father's boss. He then escapes to Canada to join the Royal Canadian Air Force with hopes of killing Nazis. There's a lot to enjoy in this sprawling book, which brings a Huck Finn-ish humor to its coming-of-age story. But with its overstated themes and tendency to dictate the characters' thoughts and feelings rather than elicit them, the novel compromises its emotional impact. A novel whose entertaining parts don't make for a satisfying whole.COPYRIGHT(2021) Kirkus Reviews, ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.
- popularity
- 579
- links
- self:
- href: https://api.overdrive.com/v1/collections/v1L1BWwAAAA2I/products/507acae1-4275-471b-8462-33dadce103e5/metadata
- type: application/vnd.overdrive.api+json
- self:
- id
- 507acae1-4275-471b-8462-33dadce103e5
- starRating
- 4
- readingOrder
- 1
- images
- cover:
- href: https://img1.od-cdn.com/ImageType-100/0874-1/{507ACAE1-4275-471B-8462-33DADCE103E5}Img100.jpg
- type: image/jpeg
- thumbnail:
- href: https://img1.od-cdn.com/ImageType-200/0874-1/{507ACAE1-4275-471B-8462-33DADCE103E5}Img200.jpg
- type: image/jpeg
- cover150Wide:
- href: https://img1.od-cdn.com/ImageType-150/0874-1/507/ACA/E1/{507ACAE1-4275-471B-8462-33DADCE103E5}Img150.jpg
- type: image/jpeg
- cover300Wide:
- href: https://img1.od-cdn.com/ImageType-400/0874-1/507/ACA/E1/{507ACAE1-4275-471B-8462-33DADCE103E5}Img400.jpg
- type: image/jpeg
- cover:
- isPublicPerformanceAllowed
- False
- languages
- code: en
- name: English
- subjects
- value: Fiction
- value: Literature
- value: Historical Fiction
- publishDateText
- 07/27/2021
- otherFormatIdentifiers
- type: ISBN
- value: 9780358697466
- mediaType
- eBook
- shortDescription
FINALIST FOR THE NATIONAL JEWISH BOOK AWARD
WINNER OF THE JEWISH FICTION AWARD FROM THE ASSOCIATION OF JEWISH LIBRARIES
"[Miller's] character portraits are indelible, often heartbreaking. At times this novel moved me to tears, the highest possible compliment."
—New York Times Book Review
With the wit and scope of Michael Chabon's The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay, Derek B. Miller tackles his most ambitious epic yet. At its heart is the return of Sheldon Horowitz, the protagonist from Miller's award-winning first novel, Norwegian by Night, who was lauded by Pulitzer Prize–winning author Richard Russo as "one of the most memorable characters . . . that I've encountered in years."
MEET SHELDON IN THE MORNING OF HIS LIFE
Twelve-year old Sheldon Horowitz is still recovering from the tragic loss of his mother...
- sortTitle
- How to Find Your Way In the Dark
- crossRefId
- 5545985
- series
- Sheldon Horowitz
- publisher
- HarperCollins
- bisacCodes
- code: FIC019000
- description: Fiction / Literary
- code: FIC046000
- description: Fiction / Jewish
- code: FIC014050
- description: FICTION / Historical / 20th Century / World War II & Holocaust
