The Garlic Eaters by Madison Safer
(Ayin Press)
March 17, 2026
THE YIDDISH-SPEAKING Garlic Eaters exist blissfully in an allium-based utopia. They live underground in a garlic-bulb house, busy themselves with garlic-centric tasks, dress in garlic skins through the day, and snuggle into garlic cloves to sleep through the night. They are, as the young people say, living their best life. That is, until a rather large mole forces the Garlic Eaters to bolt (forgive me, dear reader) from their pungent abode, and the family must begin the journey to find a new home and community that can accept them and their favourite food just as they are. Readers absorb Yiddish vocabulary, lessons about alienation, and messages about staying true to yourself along the way. Zachary Kauffman
