Tsim Tsum
Published on 1. October 2013
67 pages
978-1-62517-272-3 (ISBN)
Description
Sabrina Orah Mark follows up her critically acclaimed debut, The Babies, winner of the Saturnalia Books Poetry Prize in 2004 chosen by Jane Miller, with a second collection of prose, Tsim Tsum, centered on two characters, Walter B. and Beatrice, first introduced in The Babies. Unbeknownst to them they have come into being under the laws of Tsim Tsum, a Kabbalistic claim that a being cannot become, or come into existence, unless the creator of that being departs from that being. Along their journey they encounter many beguiling characters including The Healer, The Collector, Walter B.'s Extraordinary Cousin, and the Oldest Animal. These figures bewilder and dislodge what is at the heart of the immigrant experience: survival, testimony, and belonging.
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Content
- Intro
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Acknowledgments
- Epigraph
- Table of Contents
- Dedication
- I
- The Departure
- Walter B. Needs Some Time
- The Definition of a Thief
- The Disasters
- The Reality Testing Booth
- II
- Beatrice Takes a Lover
- Where Babies Come From
- Aster
- The Mark's of Walter B.'s Power
- Forgiveness
- III
- The Traitor
- Cryptozoology
- Beatrice Writes a Letter to a Magazine
- Poland
- The Town
- IV
- The 10 Stages of Beatrice
- The Delivery
- The Organization
- The Mistake
- The Joke
- V
- On the Way to Mist Must
- The Preservation
- The Oldest Animal Writes a Letter Home
- Birthday
- All is Fair in Love and War
- VI
- The Drawing
- Walter B.'s Extraordinary Cousin Arrives for a Visit
- The Oldest Animal Writes a Letter Home {II}
- B is for Beatrice
- The Healer
- The Box
- VII
- The Rooster
- The Creation
- Long Ago and Far Away
- The Oldest Animal Writes a Letter Home {III}
- A History of Stray
- VIII
- The Stethoscope
- The Oldest Animal Writes a Letter Home {IV}
- The Word
- The Name
- Parashas Acharei Mos
- IX
- The Saddest Gown in the World
- The Party
- The Oldest Animal Writes a Letter Home {V}
- The Ruse
- The Incident
- The Description
