Ian Thal:
17 Mar. 2023
“
A fascinatingly constructed adventure told through nested stories. Set against the refugee crisis created by forced conversions, the Spanish Inquisition, and the Spanish Expulsion of 1492, Ben-Zion Palachi has become a pirate captain, the only profession that allows him to remain the protagonist in his own story. But just as conversions, displacement, and secrets place identities into a state of flux, his story is in as much flux as his crew's fortunes. ”