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Helene Wecker is an American novelist and author of the historical fantasy series The Golem and the Jinni. Her debut novel, The Golem and the Jinni, won the Mythopoeic Award for Adult Literature, the VCU Cabell Award for First Novel, and the Harold U. Ribalow Prize, and received Nebula and World Fantasy Award nominations. Wecker holds a B.A. in English from Carleton College and an M.F.A. in Fiction Writing from Columbia University. Her fiction has appeared in literary journals including Joyland and Catamaran, and in the anthology The Djinn Falls in Love and Other Stories. She lives in the San Francisco Bay Area with her family.
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The Golem and the Jinni
The debut novel and first volume of the trilogy.
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The Golem and the Jinni Trilogy
A historical fantasy trilogy following Chava, a golem, and Ahmad, a jinni, as they navigate friendship, identity, love, and belonging across immigrant communities and changing worlds.
