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Eli Zuzovsky's confronts shame, war, family dynamics, and queer lust in his debut novel "Mazeltov"

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Eli Zuzovsky is the author of “Mazeltov,” a debut novel. It is a book about a boy who confronts queer lust, shame, the threat of war, and the plague of family on the day he becomes a man.

It all takes place in a banquet hall in the onset of war where Adam’s bar mitzvah party turns into a glorious catastrophe.  

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