The Skin and Its Girl teachings Ancient and contemporary

Ancient and contemporary

It's just the three of them in the vast black woods

"--The New York Times Book Review

"clean" ingredients and nose-to-tail cooking are nothing new to Sean Sherman

Organized around the premise of the Trickster Academy-- a university space run by

The Skin and Its Girl teachings Ancient and contemporaryIn a Pacific Northwest hospital far from the Rummani family's ancestral home in Palestine, the heart of a stillborn baby begins to beat and her skin turns vibrantly, permanently cobalt blue. On the same day, the Rummanis' centuries old soap factory in Nablus is destroyed in an air strike. The family matriarch and keeper of their lore, Aunt Nuha, believes that the blue girl embodies their sacred history, harkening back to a time when the Rummanis were